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blished  for  Alumni  and  Friends  of  the  University  of  the  South  ■  April  199. 


SEWANEE       JOURNAL 


About 
the  Cover 

The  warmth  of 

late-afternoon 

sunlight  reveals 

the  glory 

of  Sewanee's 

native  sandstone 

architecture  in 

All  Saints'  Chapel. 

Photo  by 

Woodrow  Blettel. 


On  a  bright  March  morning,  I  had  the  pleasure  of 
talking  with  Sewanee  stonemason  Carl  Reid  about 
his  craft.  Reid  oversaw  much  of  the  construction 
boom  on  campus  in  the  1950s  that  helped  to  define 
Sewanee's  character. 

We  talk  in  his  house  off  of  Ball  Park  Road,  which  he 
built  himself.  After  long  days  of  cutting  and  setting 
stone,  Reid  tells  me,  he  would  come  home  from  the  job 
and  work  on  his  own  house.  Of  course,  it  is  stone.  Stone- 
is  part  of  the  fabric  of  Reid's  life: 
four  generations  of  Reids  have 
been  stonemasons  in  Sewanee. 

I  knew  precious  little  about  this 
exacting  and  magnificent  craft  be- 
fore I  began  researching  the  tradi- 
tion of  stonemasonry  at  the  Univer- 
sity. Now  I  can  tell  the  difference 
between  Sewanee  sandstone  and 
Crossville  sandstone.  I  know  to  look 
at  the  mortar  seams  of  stonework  to 
see  how  conscientious  the  masons 
were.  I  can  tell  you  the  difference 
between  a  smooth  ashlar  finish  and 
a  rough  finish.  Thanks  to  Carl 
Reid,  I  know  enough  to  understand 
the  quality  and  permanence  of  the 
work. 

"There's  some  stonework  in  Hodgson'  Chapel  [St. 
Luke's]  that's  as  good  as  any  in  the  world.  The  tracery 
windows  in  Hodgson's  Chapel  have  been  cut  out  of 
sandstone  by  hand,"  Reid  says. 

"Those  walls  in  St.  Luke's  Chapel  are  solid  18-inch 
wall  all  the  way  to  the  top.  They'll  be  standing  there  a 
thousand  years  from  now." 

Houston  King,  the  University's  current  stonemason, 
also  helped  me  in  my  education  about  stone.  King  has 
worked  on  several  campus  buildings  and  is  gearing  up 
to  begin  construction  on  the  University  Commons,  the 
new  dining  hall.  As  we  walk  around  campus.  King  points 
to  the  lichen  clinging  to  the  stone  on  some  of  the  older 
buildings.  "That's  called  growing  a  skin  on  the  stone," 


he  says.  "The  lichen  helps  to  preserve  the  stone;  it  pro- 
tects it  from  the  elements." 

I  spent  time  with  Reid  and  Houston  King,  the 
University's  current  stonemason,  to  learn  from  these 
masters  about  a  craft  that  is  slowly  vanishing.  Both  tell 
me  that  the  work  is  so  hard  on  a  man  that  many  people 
shy  away  from  it  today.  They  are  part  of  a  long  line  of 
stonemasons  who  have  worked  on  campus;  there  are  a 
handful  of  others  who  contributed  to  Sewanee's  mag- 
nificent stone  buildings:  the 
Campbell  family,  the  Cilliams,  the 
Short  family,  and  Billy  Pack. 

They  are  all  part  of  an  important 
tradition  that  makes  Sewanee  dis- 
tinctive. 

Elsewhere  in  this  issue,  you'll 
read  about  another  tradition  that 
is  part  of  the  character  of  this 
place:  the  University's  connection 
to  the  Episcopal  Church.  While 
many  liberal  arts  colleges  are  dis- 
tancing themselves  from  their 
church  affiliations,  Sewanee  has 
remained  steadfast  in  its  commit- 
ment to  the  church. 

Sarah  Moore  had  a  candid 
conversation  with  religion  profes- 
sor Corrie  Norman  about  how  the  University  is 
strengthening  and  expanding  its  ties  to  Anglicanism 
and  the  Episcopal  Church.  Norman  is  part  of  a  group 
of  college  professors  who  are  researching  the  question 
of  church-related  colleges  in  a  postmodern  world;  their 
work  is  being  supported  by  the  Lilly  Foundation. 

"We're  bucking  the  trend,"  says  Norman.  "Other 
Protestant  schools  have  said  'in  order  for  us  to  not  just 
survive,  but  to  thrive,  we  have  to  become  less  of  what  we 
were.'  We  say,  in  order  for  us  to  survive  and  thrive,  we 
have  to  be  more  than  what  we  are.  We  have  to  invite  more 
people  to  the  banquet." 


-RB 


SEWANEE/APRIL    1997 


CONTENTS 


FEATURES 


COVER       STORY 


Romancing  the  Stone 

Sewanee's  personality  is  etched  in  stone,  and 
the  men  who  quarried  the  sandstone  from 
the  Mountain  created  masterpieces  for  the 
ages.  Robert  Bradford  looks  at  the  buildings 
and  some  of  the  stonemasons  I  y| 

who  built  them.  JlTT 


Study  Buddy 

Coming  out  of  retire- 
ment, James  Dezell, 
C'55,  launched  a 
company  he  hopes 
will  revolutionize  the 
classroom.  The  goal: 
a  new  system  where 
every  single  child  has 
his  or  her  own  laptop 
computer.  Joe 
Romano  talks  with 
Dezell  about  his 
vision  for  helping 
children 
everywhere.      JA^J 


When  Narratives 
Collide 

Corrie  Norman  is 
part  of  the  debate 
between  church- 
based  universities  and 
secularism  changing 
the  face  of  once- 
religious  colleges 
everywhere.  Sarah 
T.  Moore  examines 
Sewanee's  strong 
church  ties  in  a 
postmodern 
world. 


20 


Vice-Chancellor's 
Corner 

Appreciation  for  the 

interconnected 

communities  of  the 

University — one  of 

Sewanee's 

greatest 

strengths. 

On  the  Mountain 

New  stained  glass 
window  for  All  Saints' 
Chapel  •  Two  Sewanee 
students  awarded 
Watson  Fellowships  • 


4 


D       E      P      A      R      1 

Record  applications  at 
Sewanee  •  Province  IV 
bishops  discuss 
seminary  education  • 
Honorary  degrees 
granted  •  Migratory 
bird  symposium  • 
Sewanee  Women's 
Conference  • 
Sewanee  among 
Anglican  colleges 
meeting  in  Delhi  • 
Provocative  speakers 
in  theological  forum  • 
Local  students  compete 
for  Truman 
Scholarships.  ^/ 


M 


N 


Sports 


Men's  and  women's 
basketball  milestones 
•  Player-  and  coach- 
of-the-year  honors  • 
Swimming 
and  diving 

Theology 

Visiting  with  old 
friends  and  making 
new  ones  may  be  the 
redeeming  grace  of 

General  ^)/^-x 

Convention.  ^,vy 


Afterword 

In  the  text  of  a  re- 
cent speech, 
Chancellor  Duncan 
M.  Gray  Jr.,  discusses 
the  evolution  of 
Southern  life  in 
politics,  C~P  t 

society,  and    *LJ  %^J 
the  Church. 


Class  Notes      27 
InMemoriam  33 


SEWANEE 

April  1 997 

Stephen  Becker 

Vice  President  [or  University 

Relations 

Robert  Bradford 

Editor 

foe  Romano 

Associate  Editor 

Ken  Morris 
Art  Director 

Pat  Kepple 
Class  Notes  Editor 

Associated  Alumni  Officers 

James  H.  Bratton  Jr.,  C-52 

President 

Philip  C.  "Chap" Jackson  III,  C'79 

Vice  President  for  Admission 

William  B.  Davis,  C'69 

Vice  President  for  Planned  diving 

1 1.  Hunter  Huckabay  ]r., 

T'69,  T'83 

Vice  President  for  Church  Relations 

Nora  Frances  Stone  McRae,  C77 
Vice  President  for  Regions 

Laurie  Jarrett  Rogers,  C85 
Vice  President  for  Career  Sendees 

Thomas  S.  Rue,  C68 

Vice  President 

for  the  Sewanee  Annual  Fund 

Paul  J,  Greeley,  C54 

Vice  President  for  Reunions 

James  K.  Yeary,  C64, 

T'69,  T'89 

Vice  President  for  the  School  of 

Theology  Alumni 

HW.  "Yogi"  Anderson  III,  C'72 

Executive  Director 

Associated  Alumni 

Photography: 

Stephen  Alvarez,  C87 

Woodrow  Blettel 

Lyn  Hutchinson 

Charley  Watkins,  T'90 

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The  University  of  the  South 


VICE-CHANCELLOR'S        CORNER 


Sewanee  is  a 

CARING, 

interconnected 

community,  with 

education  and 

spiritual 

experience  at  its 

center.  That  has 

been  its  strength 

and  that  must 

continue  to  be  a 

part  of  the 

sewanee  heritage. 


Lives  Connected 

Each  of  us  lives  in  a  set  of  overlapping  communities: 
work,  play,  church,  family.  But  a  vice-chancellor  at 
Sewanee,  arguably,  lives  in  more  communities, 
which  change  repeatedly,  and  whose  sheer  vitality  and 
energy  provide  a  fascinating  dimension  to  the  position. 
A  recent  week  in  March  illustrates  this  point. 

On  Monday  morning  I  joined  six  others  for  morning 
prayer  in  St.  Augustine's  Chapel.  With  Lent  well  under 
way,  this  worshipping  community  had  gathered  often — 
I  less  so  because  of  my  schedule.  Later  that  day  I  met  for 
the  usual  Monday  lunch  at  Rebel's  Rest  with  the  nine 
members  of  the  senior  administration  who  form  the 
Operations  Committee.  Many  of  us  have  now  worked 
together  for  almost  nine  years,  so  our  conversations  are 
often  telepathic,  frank,  and  occasionally  funny.  Each 
time  we  separate  I  give  prayerful  thanks  for  this  special 
community  which  gives  so  much  to  the  larger  Sewanee 
community. 

Still  later  on  Monday,  I  presided  over  another  form 
of  community:  the  elected  Community  Council  of 
Sewanee.  The  agenda  dealt  with  many  of  the  usual  mu- 
nicipal concerns:  parking,  a  new  garbage  contract,  the 
forthcoming  spring  cleanup,  some  concerns  about  new 
work  in  Abbo's  Alley.  There  were  expressions  of  con- 
cern and  assurances  that  issues  would  be  addressed. 
These  meetings  always  reflect  a  group  of  individuals 
who  care  deeply  about  the  quality  of  life  in  Sewanee, 
while  worrying  how  to  improve  it  and  yet  not  destroy  it. 

The  College  faculty  met  on  Wednesday  for  its 
monthly  session,  providing  still  another  community. 
Presided  over  by  Dean  Robert  Keele,  C'56,  the  faculty 
approved  new  courses,  discussed  cross-listed  study  pro- 
grams, and  debated  a  resolution  on  whether  compre- 
hensive examinations  should  be  scheduled  for  Holy 
Week.  The  ensuing  debate — moderate,  civil,  and 
unarcane — led  to  a  motion  to  table,  thus  leaving  the 
current  restrictions  in  place.  In  this  community  senior, 
middle,  and  very  junior  faculty  batted  concepts  and 
views  back  and  forth  as  they  thought  seriously  about  the 
nature  of  the  academic  community. 

On  Thursday  and  Saturday  night  the  community 
shifted  dramatically:  to  the  Fowler  Center  and  Julian 
Gymnasium  for  two  games  in  the  NCAA  Division  III 
playoffs.  Already  the  women's  basketball  team  had  com- 
pleted its  fifth  winning  season  in  history.  The  men,  con- 
ference champions  and  one  of  the  great  Sewanee 
teams,  played  host  to  Rust  College  on  Thursday  night. 
The  gym  was  packed,  the  spirit  electric.  The  sense  of 
community  almost  tangibly  palatable.  For  the  first  time 
since  the  1970s,  Sewanee  had  gotten  to  the  playoffs.  But 
never  had  Sewanee  won  a  playoff  game.  That  night  the 
Tigers  and  their  victory  led  to  the  second-round  game 
against  Bridgewater  College.  Again,  packed  stands,  with 


students  standing  and  cheering  their  teammate 
friends — all  scholars  and  athletes — in  a  tough  game. 
Sewanee  led  at  the  half,  but  the  size  and  quickness  of 
Bridgewater  ultimately  prevailed,  65-62.  Still,  everyone 
felt  grateful  for  splendid  basketball  and  a  chance  to  ex- 
perience a  Division  III  version  of  March  Madness. 

On  the  floor  after  the  last  game,  dribbling  a  soccer 
ball,  were  Pierce  Myers,  son  of  Dixon  and  Annwn 
Meyers,  and  Addison  Willis,  son  of  Laura  Lapins  and 
John  Willis.  Both  boys  had  enjoyed  the  game  and  felt 
thoroughly  at  home  with  all  of  the  "big"  people  around 
them.  Their  presence,  much  augmented  now  by  the  ar- 
rival of  many  younger  faculty  and  staff,  impacts  still  an- 
other dimension  of  Sewanee. 

On  Friday  I  headed  for  Birmingham  for  the  spring 
meeting  of  the  officers  of  the  Associated  Alumni.  A  part 
of  that  trip  involved  attending  a  service  at  the  Cathedral 
of  the  Advent  with  old  Sewanee  friends,  along  with  ca- 
sual encounters  with  still  more  alumni.  The  formal 
alumni  meeting,  of  course,  represented  still  another 
community  for  the  vice-chancellor  and  one  of  the  key 
communities  in  the  University  family.  As  usual,  the 
meeting  proved  lively,  helpful,  and  reassuring  about  the 
strong  alumni  devotion  to  this  institution. 

On  Sunday  morning,  All  Saints'  Chapel  provided  yet 
another  form  of  community.  At  the  University  sendee, 
the  choir  and  chapel  staff,  many  of  them  tired  from 
rooting  at  the  basketball  game  the  night  before,  gath- 
ered for  one  of  Sewanee's  special  gifts:  a  full  worship 
sendee  in  a  cathedral-like  setting.  But  two  further  obser- 
vations tie  the  entire  community  together  for  me  in  a 
way  that  is  "specially  Sewanee."  One  of  the  ushers  was 
student  trustee  Ryan  Harrigan,  who  gave  out  bulletins 
and  did  the  usual  usher  duties.  But  the  night  before  he 
had  scored  17  points  in  the  game  and  had  earlier  been 
named  player  of  the  year  in  the  Southern  Collegiate 
Athletic  Conference.  And  also  present  was  Coach  Joe 
Thoni,  along  with  son,  Will.  Joe  had  coached  the  team 
the  night  before  and  his  five-year  coaching  record  al- 
ready ranks  among  the  Sewanee  classics.  Taken  to- 
gether, the  enthusiastic  service  and  the  presence  of 
Ryan  and  Joe  reaffirmed  one  of  the  major  traditions  of 
the  University  of  the  South:  It  is  a  caring,  intercon- 
nected community,  with  education  and  spiritual  experi- 
ence at  its  center.  That  has  been  its  strength  and  that 
must  continue  to  be  a  part  of  the  Sewanee  heritage. 


^L^jJ)V^a 


SEWANEE/APRIL    1997 


ON        THE        MOUNTAIN 


fir;  i  ? 


Stained  Glass  to  be 
Added  to  All  Saints' 


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am*-  dm 


AS  Saints '  Chapel  awaits  a  new 
stained  glass  window. 


or  the  first  time  in  15 
years,  a  new  stained 
glass  window  will  be  in- 
stalled in  All  Saints'  Chapel. 
Funded  by  a  $100,000 
gift  from  Dr.  Lome  Semrau 
of  Jackson,  Tenn.,  the  win- 
dow will  be  an  important 
addition    to   the   chapel, 
says  the  Rev.  Tom  Ward, 
C'67,  University  chaplain. 
"The     windows     in     All 
Saints'  Chapel  help  to 
tell    the    story   of  the 
Church.  This  project  rep- 
resents a  wedding  be- 
tween the  institution's  on- 
going need  to  tell  that 
story  and  the  donor's  de- 
sire to  give  to  Sewanee." 
Semrau,  a  clinical  psychologist  in  Jackson,  says  the  dona- 
tion honors  his  father,  who  has  played  an  important  role  in 
his  life,  and  honors  the  Episcopal  Church. 

Semrau  says  he  first  saw  All  Saints'  Chapel  when  he 
came  to  the  Mountain  for  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Epis- 
copal Churchmen. "  When  I  walked  into  the  chapel,  it  re- 
minded me  of  home,  of  England  and  Canada.  I  feel  very 
much  at  home  each  time  I  enter  All  Saints'  Chapel." 

The  new  window  will  be  designed  by  Brenda 
Belfield  of  Alexandria,  Va.,  whose  major  works  include 
58  windows  for  the  Washington  Cathedral. 

"I  have  worked  with  Brenda  in  the  past,  and  her 
work  is  very  impressive,"  says  Ward.  "We  look  forward 
to  having  the  window  ready  sometime  this  summer." 

To  Antarctica,  India  and  Beyond 

Jonathan  Meiburg,  C'97,  and  Christopher  Piromalli, 
C'97,  have  been  awarded  Thomas  J.  Watson 
Fellowships  for  1997-98. 
Meiburg,  an  English  major  from  Roswell,  Ga.,  will 
travel  around  the  globe  on  his  Watson  Fellowship.  His 
project,  titled  "Going  to  the  Ends  of  the  Earth:  Com- 
munity Life  in  Remote  Societies,"  will  take  him  to  Ant- 
arctica, Argentina,  Australia,  Canada,  and  China. 

Piromalli,  a  biology  and  third  world  studies  major 
from  Altamonte  Springs,  Fla.,  will  be  studying  "Ayur- 
vedic Medicine  and  Preventative  Health  Care"  in  India 
following  his  graduation  from  Sewanee  in  May. 

The  Watson  Fellowship  Program  was  started  in  1968 
by  the  children  of  Thomas  J.  Watson  Sr.,  the  founder 
of  IBM,  to  honor  their  parents'  long-standing  interest 


Jonathan  Meiburg  (left) 
and  Chris  Piromalli, 
1997  Watson  Fellows. 


in  education  and  world  affairs.  This  year,  the  founda- 
tion awarded  60  grants  of  $18,000  each  to  graduating 
seniors  from  among  50  small,  private  colleges  invited 
by  the  foundation  to  participate.  More  than  1,000  stu- 
dents competed  for  this  year's  awards.  "This  diverse 
class  of  1997  Watson  Fellows  represents  some  of  the 
best  and  brightest  in  American  higher  education  to- 
day," according  to  William  F.  L.  Moses,  executive  direc- 
tor of  the  Watson  Foundation. 

Applications  Soar  To  New  Heights 

For  the  fifth  time  in  six  years,  applications  for  admis- 
sion to  Sewanee,  have  reached  an  all-time  high.  This 
spring,  the  University  admission  office  received  over 
1,900  applications.  Since  the  beginning  of  the  decade, 
applications  to  the  University  have  risen  by  nearly  70 
percent.  At  the  beginning  of  the  decade,  applications  to 
the  University 
were  nearly  half 
of  what  they  were 
this  year,  totalling 
1,124  in  1990. 

The  academic 
profile  of  this 
year's  record  pool 
continues  to  rise 
as  well. 

"What  we  are 
seeing  is  the  con- 
tinuation of  an 
extended  trend," 
says  Robert  Hed- 
rick,  director  of 
admission  at  Sewanee. 

"In  the  past  few  years,  we  have  had  a  record  num- 
ber of  visitors  to  the  University  and  this  has  been 
converted  into  a  record  number  of  applications.  I 
also  believe  that  we  are  enjoying  the  benefits  of  in- 
creased institutional  visibility.  This  has  helped  to 
create  large  admission  pools  and,  combined  with  a 
strong  retention  rate,  we  are  enjoying  our  largest  en- 
rollment of  all  time." 


Two  Sewanee  hallmarks — 
small  classes  and  close 
relationships — have  been 
important  factors  in  attract- 
ing record  numbers  of 
students  to  the 
University. 


The  University  of  the  south 


ON       THE       MOUNTAIN 


Province  IV  Bishops  Discuss  Seminary 
Education  at  Sewanee 

For  the  first  time  in  more  than  eight  years,  bishops  of 
the  southeastern  United  States  gathered  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  the  South  where  they  engaged  in  a  dy- 
namic interchange  with  faculty  and  staff  at  the  School 
of  Theology  about  seminary  education  and  the  needs 
of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

During  the  annual  Province  IV  meetingjanuary  21- 
23,  the  University  of  the  South  helped  take  the  lead  to 
talk  with  bishops  about  those  areas  that  can  strengthen 


The  Rt.  Rev.  James 
Coleman,  bishop  of  West 
Tennessee,  (left)  talks  with 
the  Rt.  Rev.  Bertram 
Herlong,  (right)  bishop  of 
Tennessee,  before  the  proces- 
sional into  All  Saints ' 
Chapel  at  the  opening  of 
Easter  Convocation  at 
Sewanee. 


the  education  and  formation  of  future  ordained  lead- 
ers of  the  Church. 

"We  cannot  expect  a  seminary  to  do  it  all,"  said  the 
Rt.  Rev.  Henry  Parsley,  C'70,  bishop  coadjutor  of  Ala- 
bama. "We  need  a  new  kind  of  partnership  between 
dioceses  and  seminaries  to  put  together,  in  a  unified 
way,  the  practical,  spiritual,  and  theological." 

"You  are  legitimately  raising  questions,  and  we're 
happy  to  talk  about  them,"  said  the  Very  Rev.  Dr.  Guy 
Fitch  Lytle,  dean  of  the  School  of  Theology.  "Seminar- 
ies are  here  to  serve  the  Church... and  Sewanee  is  going 
to  be  here  for  awhile." 

For  two  hours,  the  group  listed  concerns,  ideas,  and 
suggestions  upon  which  bishops,  dioceses,  and  the 
seminaries  should  focus. 

Bishops  asked  how  commissions  on  ministry  func- 
tion when  talking  with  candidates  seeking  ordination. 
They  discussed  teaching  methods,  spiritual  direction, 
new  models  to  deliver  theological  education  to  meet 
the  needs  of  today's  students  and  congregations,  alter- 
native theological  training,  deployment,  authority  is- 
sues, and  the  value  and  timing  of  General  Ordination 


Exams.  They  suggested  examining  the  whole  of  Title 
III,  the  ministry  canons  that  largely  focus  on  gover- 
nance and  regulation  of  ordination. 

Pre-seminary  preparation  is  critical,  said  Lytle.  He 
said  dioceses  should  work  with  candidates  before  send- 
ing them  to  seminary  on  academic,  psychological,  and 
financial  issues. 

"You  must  look  at  those  three  human  things  that  re- 
ally prepare  you  for  seminary  education,"  he  said. 

The  bishops  said  their  dioceses  need  clergy  who  are 
evangelists  and  missionaries,  not  those  who  merely 
maintain  a  congregation.  They  said  they  want  people 
grounded  in  spiritual  formation,  biblical  and  theologi- 
cal knowledge,  who  can  articulate  a  vision 
to  a  congregation  which  can  transform  a 
community. 

"The  seminary  could  do  more  about 
church  growth  and  evangelism,"  said  the 
Rev.  Dr.  William  Hethcock,  professor  of 
homiletics  at  Sewanee.  "I  think  the  models 
of  parishes  from  which  students  come  are 
maintenance  models  and  they  have  in 
mind  replicating  that.  You  need  to  spell 
out  to  students  before  going  to  seminary 
what  ministry  models  are  expected  of 
them." 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Edward  Salmon,  bishop  of 
South  Carolina,  said  people  need  training 
in  relationships  and  conflict.  They  need 
support  from  their  bishop,  and  the  dio- 
cese needs  to  subsidize  salaries.  Seminar- 
ies and  dioceses  "really  do  need  a  partner- 
ship with  each  other." 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Charles  Duvall,  bishop  of 
the  Central  Gulf  Coast,  and  a  member  of  the  University's 
Board  of  Regents  described  an  agreement  he  has  with 
Sewanee  to  send  a  person,  over  age  55,  who  will  be  a  non- 
stipendiary  priest  in  his  diocese,  to  seminary  for  one  year. 
"It  is  one  possibility  of  an  alternative  which  is  between  a 
church  having  no  priest  yet  not  being  able  to  afford  a 
seminary-trained  priest.  It's  working  for  us." 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Don  Wimberly,  bishop  of  Lexington  and 
also  a  University  Regent,  encouraged  the  bishops  to  meet 
at  Sewanee,  whose  history  is  intertwined  with  the  south- 
ern Episcopal  Church.  Sewanee  is  the  only  University  in 
the  nation  that  is  owned  by  the  Episcopal  Church.  There 
are  many  new  bishops  with  no  connection  to  Sewanee 
and  who  are  unaware  of  the  Church's  common  heritage 
with  the  University,  said  Wimberly,  and  he  wanted  to  in- 
troduce them  to  the  institution,  both  the  College  of  Arts 
and  Sciences  and  the  School  of  Theology. 

The  bishops  agreed  to  continue  to  talk  about  how 
they  can  work  together  with  commissions  on  ministry, 
congregations,  and  seminaries  to  raise  up  clergy  for  pas- 
toral leadership.  They  also  agreed  to  meet  again  at 
Sewanee  in  three  years. 


Sewanee/April  1997 


ON        THE        MOUNTAIN 


Mathematician  and  Clergyman  Receive 
Honorary  Degrees  from  Sewanee 


The  University  awarded  honorary  degrees  to  the  Rt. 
Rev.  John  Bailey  Lipscomb,  bishop  coadjutor  of  the 
Diocese  of  Southwest  Florida,  and  mathematician  Ri- 
chard Davis  Anderson  during  Easter  convocation. 

Born  in  Alexandria,  Va.,  Lipscomb  attended  schools 
in  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  before  going  to  the  University  of 
North  Carolina  at  Asheville  where  he  earned  a  bachelor's 
degree  in  philosophy.  Lipscomb  received  a  master  of  di- 
vinity degree  from  Sewanee 's  School  of  Theology  and  a 
doctorate  from  the  Graduate  Theological  Foundation. 

Since  his  ordination  to  the  priesthood  in  1975, 
Lipscomb  has  served  congregations  in  the  dioceses  of 
Florida,  Upper  South  Carolina,  Louisiana,  and  Western 
Louisiana.  At  the  time  of  his  election  as  bishop  coadju- 
tor in  September  1995,  Lipscomb  was  rector  of  the 
Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd  in  Lake  Charles,  La.  and 
dean  of  the  Lake  Charles  Convocation. 

In  more  than  two  decades  of  parish  work,  Lipscomb 
has  maintained  an  active  ministry  in  all  of  the  dioceses  he 
has  served.  He  has  served  on  diocesan  liturgical  and  re- 
newal commissions  and  as  a  University  trustee. 

Anderson  is  senior  advisor  to  both  the  Louisiana  Sys- 
temic Initiatives  Program  and  the  Louisiana  Collabora- 
tive for  Excellence  in  the  Preparation  of  Teachers.  A 
graduate  of  the  University  of  Minnesota,  where  he  earned 
a  bachelor's  degree,  and  the  University  of  Texas,  which 
awarded  him  a  doctoral  degree,  Anderson  made  a  name 
for  himself  early  in  his  career  as  a  mathematician  by  de- 
veloping the  field  of  infinite-dimensional  point  set  topol- 
ogy. According  to  one  of  his  colleagues,  Anderson  used 
this  to  solve  "one  of  the  most  difficult  and  long-standing 
problems  and  to  make  this  area  into  a  beautiful  whole 
that  one  can  study  and  understand." 

Anderson  served  on  the  faculty  of  Louisiana  State 
University  for  nearly  three  decades,  retiring  in  1980  with 


the  rank  of  Boyd  Professor,  the  highest  honor  bestowed 
by  that  institution.  He  also  has  served  as  vice  president  of 
the  American  Mathematical  Society  (AMS)  and  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Mathematical  Association  of  America  (MAA) . 
In  addition,  he  has  chaired  numerous  committees  includ- 
ing the  Council  of  Scientific  Society  Presidents,  the  GRE 
Panel  on  the  Advanced  Mathematics  Examination,  and 
the  NSF  Advisory  Panel  on  Mathematics. 

Over  the  course  of  his  career,  Anderson  has  received 
numerous  awards.  Among  them  are  the  Bolzano  Medal 
from  the  Czechoslovakian  Academy  of  Sciences  and  the 
Award  for  Distinguished  Service  to  Mathematics. 

Since  his  retirement  from  Louisiana  State,  Anderson 
has  turned  his  attention  to  problems  concerning  the 
teaching  of  mathematics  in  grades  K-12.  He  served  as  co- 
director  of  the  NSF-funded  project,  Middle  School  Math 
Revitalization,  and  he  continues  to  be  a  moving  force 
behind  the  Louisiana  Systemic  Initiative,  a  coalition  for 
the  reform  of  mathematics  and  science  education. 

Migratory  Bird  Symposium 
Crosses  Disciplines 

Conservation  and  Management  of  Neotropical  Migratory 
Birds:  Local  Perspectives  on  a  Global  Issue  was  the  focus 
of  a  symposium  here  in  early  April.  Sponsored  by 
Sewanee,  the  Tennessee  Conservation  League,  and 
Arnold  Engineering  and  Development  Center,  the  sym- 
posium was  developed  by  three  local  faculty  members  to 
demonstrate  the  multidisciplinary  nature  of  environmen- 
tal issues.  The  program  combined  courses  on  the  tropical 
rain  forest,  conservation  biology,  and  ornithology. 

Neotropical  migrant  birds  were  selected  as  the  focus 
for  the  symposium,  according  to  Nora  Bynum,  visiting  as- 
sistant professor  of  anthropology  at  Sewanee,  because 
they  illustrate  how  local  issues,  such  as  the  population 
decline  in  songbirds,  can  be  linked  to  national  issues, 
such  as  loss  of  the  birds'  habitat.  "The  symposium  also 
examined  the  role  that  a  coalition  of  educational,  govern- 
ment, and  private  organizations  can  play  in  identifying 
problems  and  formulating  solutions,"  says  Bynum. 

In  addition  to  Sewanee,  the  program  was  sponsored 
by  the  Tennessee  Conservation  League,  which,  with  Jon- 
athan Evans,  assistant  professor  of  biology  at  Sewanee,  has 
explored  new  and  innovative  mechanisms  as  part  of  an 
overall  strategy  to  ensure  the  long-term  sustainability  of 
biodiversity  on  local  landscapes. 

The  other  sponsor  of  the  event,  Arnold  Engineering 
and  Development  Center  (AEDC),  is  involved  in  "ecosys- 
tem management"  on  the  40,000  acres  that  make  up 
Arnold  Air  Force  Base  in  Franklin  and  Coffee  counties. 
The  goal  at  AEDC  is  to  ensure  ecosystem  integrity  and 
maintain  or  restore  native  biodiversity  such  as  neotropical 
migrant  birds,  while  providing  for  compatible  multiple 
uses  in  support  of  the  Air  Force  mission. 


From  left,  Chancellor 
Duncan  M.  Gray  Jr.,  the  Rt. 
Rev.  John  Lipscomb,  Dr. 
Richard  Anderson,  and 
Vice-Chan  cellar  Samuel 
Williamson. 


The  University  of  the  South 


ON       THE       MOUNTAIN 


Diverse  Stories,  Diverse  Lives 
Enrich  Women's  Conference 

Sojourner  Truth  never  visited  Sewanee,  but  Kathryn 
Woods  did.  Woods  brought  her  one-woman  perfor- 
mance about  Sojourner  Truth,  an  ex-slave  turned 
abolitionist  and  women's  rights  activist,  to  the  Univer- 
sity of  the  South  in  February  as  part  of  the  Sewanee 
Conference  on  Women. 

Woods,  a  Boston-based  actress,  has  performed  with 
several  theatres,  including  the  Underground  Railway 
Theatre  and  at  the  Edinburgh  Arts  Festival.  Joining 
Woods  at  this  year's  conference  were  best-selling  author 
Diane  Ackerman;  Nancy  Hawley,  one  of  the  founding 
members  of  the  Boston  Women's  Health  Book  Collec- 
tive; and  Judith  Ward  Lineback,  C'73,  a  lawyer  in  South 
Carolina,  and  the  first  woman  to  matriculate  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  the  South.  v 

Diane  Ackerman,  author  of  such  non-fiction  books 
as  A  Natural  History  of  Love,  and  the  best-selling  A  Natu- 
ral History  of  the  Senses,  spoke  about  the  importance  of 
daring  in  a  woman's  life.  She  also  shared  with  the  audi- 
ence her  experiences  working  in  a  crisis  center.  Her  lat- 
est book  is  A  Slender  Thread:  Rediscovering  Hope  at  the 
Heart  of  Crisis. 


Sewanee  Writers'  Conference,  July  15-2 


The  eighth  summer  session  of  the  Sewanee  Writers'  Conference  will  feature  a 
world-class  faculty,  including  playwright  Rommulus  Linney,  pictured  above  left.  The 
Sewanee  Writers'  Conference  attracts  90  students  each  year,  who  work  closely  with 
faculty  members  in  the  areas  of  fiction,  poetry,  and  playwriting.  Prior  to  the  writers' 
conference,  the  University  will  host  the  Sewanee  Young  Writers'  Conference  from 
June  29  through  July  1 3.  The  young  writers'  conference  attracts  junior  high  and  high 
school  students  for  two  weeks  of  intensive  workshops  and  one-on-one  mentoring 
with  a  superb  faculty. 


In  1969,  Nancy  Hawley  was  one  of  the  founding 
members  of  the  group  that  became  the  Boston 
Women's  Health  Book  Collective.  Hawley  moved  to 
Boston  in  the  late  sixties  and  joined  the  civil  rights  and 
anti-draft  movement.  She  and  nine  others  began  to 
gather  weekly  to  talk  about  issues  relating  to  women 
such  as  health  care,  sexuality,  feminism,  and  mother- 
hood. These  weekly  talks  eventually  became  the 
groundbreaking  bestseller  Our  Bodies,  Ourselves. 

In  a  luncheon  co-sponsored  by  the  University  Profes- 
sional Women  and  the  Sewanee  Student  Women's 
Council,  Judith  Lineback  spoke  about  her  experiences 
as  the  first  female  student  to  matriculate  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  the  South  and  her  work  to  keep  Sewanee  a  place 
where  her  daughters  would  be  proud  to  attend.  As  an 
undergraduate,  she  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
served  on  the  Discipline  Committee,  and  was  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  University  Choir.  In  1986,  Lineback  was 
elected  as  an  alumni  trustee  to  the  Board  of  Trustees 
and  to  the  Board  of  Regents  in  1991.  In  May  1995,  she 
was  the  first  alumna  elected  to  chair  the  Board  of  Re- 
gents and  will  serve  as  chair  until  May  1997. 

Jennifer  Fuqua,  C'97,  chairperson  for  the  1997  Se- 
wanee Conference  on  Women,  was  very  pleased  with  the 
outcome  of  the  conference  and  the  "wonderful  group  of 
women  who  came  together  on  the  Mountain  to  show, 
through  their  work  and  lives,  what  women  can  achieve." 

Anglican  Colleges  Meet  in  Delhi 

Dr.  Frederick  Croom,  University  provost,  repre- 
sented the  University  of  the  South  at  the  second  In- 
ternational Conference  of  the  Association  of  Col- 
leges and  Universities  of  the  Anglican  Communion 
(CUAC)  recently  at  St.  Stephen's  College,  Delhi,  India. 
CUAC  II  was  attended  by  71  delegates  from  48  institu- 
tions and  17  countries.  These  included  Haiti,  Israel, 
Kenya,  the  Republic  of  China,  Japan,  Uganda,  India, 
the  United  Kingdom,  and  the  United  States. 

The  group  grew  out  of  the  Association  of  Episcopal 
Colleges,  said  Croom.  "I  would  like  to  see  the  Anglican 
Communion  worldwide  get  behind  it  and  see  it  flourish." 

The  conference  heard  reports  on  two  pilot  projects 
that  had  been  conducted  following  the  initial  conference 
in  Canterbury:  a  service  learning  project  in  the  Philip- 
pines, and  a  pilgrimage  to  Taize  in  France.  A  steering 
committee  was  established  to  continue  the  development 
and  implementation  of  these  and  similar  projects.  It  will 
also  consider  CUAC's  role  as  a  clearinghouse  for  state- 
ments and  ideas,  and  as  a  fund-raising  body. 

As  a  result  of  the  association  network,  the  provost's 
office  is  in  correspondence  with  two  Anglican  univer- 
sities, Jacques  Theodore  Holly  University  in  Haiti,  and 
Cuttington  College  (in  exile)  of  Liberia,  where  two 
people  are  interested  in  becoming  scholars  in  resi- 
dence at  Sewanee. 


SEWANEE/APRIL.    1997 


ON        THE        MOUNTAIN 


New  Theological  Forum  Sponsors 
Provocative  Speakers,  Events 

From  a  civil  rights  activist  to  a  priest  who  uses  unor- 
thodox words  to  explain  orthodox  Christian  theol- 
ogy, the  Sewanee  community  has  had  a  chance  to 
hear  some  different  voices  and  attend  some  unique 
events,  thanks  to  a  new  program  initiated  by  seminary 
students. 

"This  church  has  some  wonderfully  diverse  people," 
said  Tom  Cook,  T'97,  one  of  the  organizers.  "We  wanted 
to  bring  some  of  that  energy  into  the  life  of  the  Sewanee 
community,  not  just  the  School  of  Theology." 

The  new  Sewanee  Community  Theological  Forum 
(SCTF)  provided  students  and  residents  this  academic 
year  with  four  opportunities  to  engage  religious  issues 
through  speakers  and  different  events. 

Several  van-loads  of  residents  traveled  to  Chatta- 
nooga to  attend  an  evening  with  Sister  Helen  Prejean, 
author  of  Dead  Man  Walking,  minister  to  New  Orleans 
prisons,  and  subject  of  the  movie  by  the  same  name. 
Prior  to  attending  the  talk,  the  group  sponsored  a  free 
movie  night  to  view  the  film  and  hosted  a  discussion  at 
Stirling's  Coffeehouse  on  "Ministry  to  the  Prisoner." 

In  November,  prominent  civil 
rights  activist,  prize-winning  au- 
thor and  Baptist  preacher,  Will 
D.  Campbell,  H'91,  came  to 
Sewanee  for  two  days.  Campbell, 
a  resident  of  Nashville,  is  an  un- 
abashed chronicler  of  the 
struggle  for  civil  rights  and  racial 
justice  in  the  United  States.  He 
has  written  widely  on  race  rela- 
tions and  the  Christian  church 
in  the  South  and  is  writing  a  biography  of  the  chancel- 
lor of  the  University  of  the  South,  the  Rt.  Rev.  Duncan 
M.  Gray  Jr.,  T'53,  H'72.  With  the  working  title  The  Grays 
of  Mississippi,  the  book's  story  was  the  focus  of 
Campbell's  main  presentation  at  Convocation  Hall. 

SCTF  hosted  a  trip  to  Nashville  to  attend  a  Call  to  Re- 
newal meeting,  a  grass-roots  Christian  movement  offer- 
ing alternatives  to  the  Christian  Coalition's  political  views. 

And  in  April,  in  cooperation  with  All  Saints'  Chapel, 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Robert  Farrar  Capon,  of  Shelter  Island,  N.Y., 
spent  three  days  on  campus.  Through  his  experience  as 
a  parish  priest,  seminary  dean,  professor  of  theology  and 
Greek,  canon  theologian  to  the  bishop  of  Long  Island, 
teacher  of  cooking,  prolific  author,  and  free-lance  food 
writer  for  the  New  York  Times,  Capon  used  creative  images 
to  weave  the  message  of  grace  and  forgiveness  of  Chris- 
tianity in  a  sermon  at  All  Saints'  Chapel,  in  a  community 
lecture  on  campus,  and  with  several  presentations  at  the 
School  of  Theology. 

Seminarians  Cook  and  Tom  Warne,  T'97,  of  Central 


Will  Campbell,  H'91 


Pennsylvania,  initiated  the  forum  after  attending  a  con- 
ference at  Washington  and  Lee  University  Law  School  on 
theologian  and  critic  of  church  and  society,  William 
Stringfellow. 

"We  were  excited  with  the  idea  to  bring  people  with 
unusual  presentations  to  Sewanee.  Our  goal  is  to  foster 
good  theological  conversations  among  the  students  and 
the  greater  community  and  to  enjoy  hearing  someone, 
like  Campbell,  who  is  off  the  beaten  theological  track," 
said  Cook. 

Three  Sewanee  Students  Nominated 
for  Truman  Scholarships 

Justin  Adams  of  Cowan,  Tenn.,  Patricia  Marshburn  of 
Williamston,  N.C.,  and  Michael  Salisbury  of  Lilburn, 
Ga.,  all  juniors  at  Sewanee,  have  been  nominated  to 
the  1997  Harry  S.  Truman  Scholarship  competition. 
The  scholarship  was  established  by  Congress  in  1975  as  die 
official  federal  memorial  to  honor  President  Truman.  Lip  to 
85  Truman  Scholarships  will  be  awarded  this  spring,  at 
least  one  to  an  undergraduate  from  each  state. 

Those  selected  as  Truman  Scholars  receive  up  to 
$3,000  for  their  senior  year  and  as  much  as  $27,000  for 
graduate  studies. 

An  English  major,  Adams  plans  to  pursue  a  master's 
degree  in  foreign  policy  or  international  relations  with 
the  objective  of  entering  the  U.S.  Foreign  Service. 

Marshburn  is  a  political  science  major  who  intends 
to  obtain  a  master's  degree  in  public  policy,  either  in 
social  work  or  education  policy. 

A  double  economics/political  science  major,  Salis- 
bury hopes  to  obtain  a  joint  law  degree  and  master's  in 
public  policy,  with  a  focus  on  economic  issues. 

Truman  Scholars  are  selected  on  the  basis  of  a  strong 
record  of  public  and  community  service,  commitment 
to  a  career  in  the  public  sector,  and  outstanding  leader- 
ship potential. 


We're  Outta  Here! 


traditionally 
look  for  ways  to 
express  them- 
selves, but 
Sewanee  seniors 
usually  find  no 
problem  after 
passing  comps. 
Visitors  to  the 
campus  this  time 
of  year  will  find 
many  cars 
decorated-and 
hear  a  collective 
sigh  of  relief. 


The  University  of  the  South 


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Buddy 

Committed  to  helping  students  learn  in  the  age  of  computers,  / 
James  Dezell,  C'55,  has  launched  a  company  he  hopes  will    * 
change  the  face  of  learning 


Today,  he  is  the  chairman 
of  NETSchools  Corpora- 
tion, a  company  that 
hopes  to  use  technology 
to  revolutionize  classroom 
learning,  but  only  a  few 
years  ago,  after  nearly  four 
decades  at  IBM,  James 
Dezell,  C'55,  bought  a  farm  south  of  At- 
lanta, set  up  a  pair  of  rocking  chairs  on  the 
front  porch,  and  prepared  to  enjoy  his  "retire- 
ment." At  least  he  was  going  to  give  it  a  try. 
Dezell,  who  had  served  IBM  in  a  variety 
of  roles  during  a  38-year  career,  ultimately 
headed  the  company's  educational  systems 
unit  which  he  had  built  from  the  ground  up 
into  a  $750  million  enterprise.  Concerned 
by  what  he  believed  was  happening  in  the 
nation's  primary  and  secondary  schools, 
Dezell  approached  then  IBM  Chairman 


John  Akers  in  1985,  and  told  him  the  com- 
pany needed  to  have  a  presence  in  educa- 
tion. Akers  agreed  and  pledged  the 
company's  resources  to  the  project  on  the 
condition  that  Dezell  head  it. 

"I  had  become  more  and  more  con- 
vinced that  America  was  in  trouble  because 
its  educational  system  was  failing.  By  that  I 
mean,  a  large  percentage  of  our  young 
people  were  leaving  high  school  without 
the  skills  they  needed  to  be  successful 
adults,  to  be  productive  citizens.  At  the 
same  time,  I  became  more  interested  in 
technology  as  it  was  applied  to  learning.  I 
was  convinced  that  technology  could  be  a 
part  of  the  answer.  So,  we  worked  to  de- 
velop new  ways  to  use  technology  to  im- 
prove learning." 

By  any  measure,  Dezell  was  highly  suc- 
cessful in  accomplishing  that  mission  as  his 


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unit  raised  IBM's  education  market  share 
from  nothing  to  more  than  40  percent  in  a 
very  short  time.  In  the  process,  he  also 
added  to  his  reputation  as  something  of  an 
icon  in  the  field  of  education  technology. 
But,  just  as  he  was  enjoying  some  of  his  most 
productive  years  with  that  company,  IBM's 
mandatory  retirement  policy  sent  Dezell  to 
the  sidelines  at  age  60. 

"I  wasn't  ready  to  stop.  I  think  some 
people  reach  their  peak  of  performance  at 
age  30,  while  others  reach  their  peak  much 
later.  I  was  at  my  peak,  and  I  wasn't  ready  to 
step  aside,"  says  Dezell. 

Days  on  the  farm  were  less  than  satisfying 
for  Dezell.  "I  tried  to  retire,  but  I  was  bored 
to  death,  bored... to... death.  You  see,  I  view 
myself  as  a  vibrant  contributor,  and  I  have 
always  viewed  myself  that  way,  and  that  view 
of  myself  hadn't  changed,  and  I  was  unsatis- 
fied with  doing  nothing."  So  he  gave  up  on 
the  idea  of  retiring  and  decided  that  he 
would  use  the  years  of  experience  during 
which  he  had  gained  expertise  and  a  solid 
reputation  to  get  back  in  the  work  force  as 
soon  as  he  could.  He  investigated  the  pur- 
chase of  a  small  company,  and,  though  it 
might  have  been  financially  successful,  it 
wouldn't  have  provided  him  with  the  chal- 
lenge and  sense  of  satisfaction  that  he 
needed.  Instead,  he  got  in  touch  with  a 
former  colleague  from  his  days  at  IBM,  and 
in  the  porch  rockers  where  Dezell  tried  to 
pass  his  retirement  hours,  he  and  Thomas 
Greaves,  now  president  of  NETSchools, 
talked  about  and  made  plans  for  the  com- 
pany they  would  build. 

As  the  two  men  talked,  they  tried  to  envi- 
sion the  classroom  of  the  next  century  and 
how  they  could  bring  the  current  technol- 
ogy, which  they  helped  to  develop  at  IBM, 
to  the  next  level  to  meet  that  vision. 

Seated  at  his  "desk,"  a  $29  folding  table  at 
the  startup  company's  marketing  offices  in 
Atlanta,  Dezell  enthusiastically  describes 
the  vision.  "What  we  wanted  to  do  was  to 


design  a  system  where  every  single  child  had 
their  own  laptop."  But  the  system  that 
Dezell  and  colleagues  at  NETSchools  have 
created  goes  far  beyond  simply  providing  a 
computer  for  each  student.  Linked  via  a 
wireless  infrared  connection — to  avoid  a 
jumble  of  cables  from  each  desk — student 
computers  will  have  access  to  a  main  file 
server,  which  will  house  needed  software, 
the  Internet,  and  even  other  student  com- 
puters via  E-mail. 

Dezell  sees  endless 
possibilities  for  the 
system.  The  individ- 
ual laptop,  which 
the  company  has 
dubbed  a  Study 
Buddy,  will  main- 
tain a  student's 
portfolio,  keeping  track  of  academic 
progress  throughout  the  year.  With  infor- 
mation that  a  teacher  can  download  onto 
the  computer — from  the  Internet  or  other 
sources — students  can  do  research,  com- 
plete assignments,  or  find  cross  references 
to  sources  of  help  in  textbooks,  or  on  the 
World  Wide  Web.  It  can  also  keep  track  of 
attendance,  provide  information  to  the  caf- 
eteria on  numbers  of  students  wanting  hot 
lunch  on  a  daily  basis,  and  can  convey  spe- 
cial information  on  assignments  and  stu- 
dent progress  to  parents  through  a  special 
key.  These  rugged  machines,  says  Dezell, 
will  also  survive  all  sorts  of  abuse.  "It  could 
be  used  for  second  base,"  he  says. 

By  May  of  this  year,  NETSchools  will  have 
a  prototype  of  its  system  ready  to  demon- 
strate to  prospective  school  districts.  Al- 
ready, 10  districts  have  committed  to  install- 
ing the  system  this  year.  Dezell  says  the  com- 
pany hopes  to  do  at  least  a  dozen  this  year 
and  as  many  as  60  next  year. 

Those  in  the  business  of  K-l  2  education 
are  closely  watching  NETSchools'  progress. 
In  the  April  1997  issue  of  Curriculum  Admin- 
istrator, an  editorial  shared  with  its  readers 


SEWANEE/APRIL    1997 


the  "good  news"  of  the  company's  offerings. 
"The  implications  for  getting  a  district  up  to 
speed  in  a  short  period,"  wrote  editor  Jane 
Ferguson,  "are  extraordinary. . .  .With  this 
technology,  connecting  our  schools  by  the 
21st  century  could  be  a  reality." 

The  first  system  to  be  installed  will  be  in 
El  Paso,  Texas.  Others  will  follow  in  quick 
succession.  Among  those  scheduled  are 
Fayetteville,  Murfreesboro,  and  Paris, 
Term.,  Opelika,  Ala.,  Dahlonega,  Ga.,  Ra- 
leigh, N.C.,  and  Pekin,  111. 

"This  system  will  provide  delivery  of  soft- 
ware more  effectively  than  in  the  past,"  says 
Dezell.  "Then,  we  would  have  four  ma- 
chines in  the  back  of  a  classroom  and  the 
teacher  had  to  make  sure  all  of  the  students 
got  some  time  on  them.  So,  we'll  do  that 
better.  We'll  also  give  them  access  to  all  the 
experts  on  the  Internet.  And,  we  think  this 
will  improve  the  home/school  relationship. 
We  know  that  if  we  get  more  parent  involve- 
ment, we'll  get  better  student  perfor- 
mance," says  Dezell.  "The  other  issue  is  one 
that's  very  important  to  many  educators 
and  that  is  the  equity  issue.  It  seems  that  the 
gap  between  the  haves  and  the  have-nots  is 
widening,  but  we  will  provide  equal  access 
to  every  single  child  no  matter  what  their 
socio-economic  status.  That's  very  impor- 
tant. Now,  the  haves  have  computers  in 
their  homes,  the  have-nots  don't.  We  will 
provide  equal  access." 

As  strongly  as  he  feels  about  these  issues, 
Dezell  hopes  to  accomplish  something  even 
greater  through  the  use  of  the  new  technol- 
ogy in  the  classroom.  He  hopes  to  change 
the  face  of  learning.  "If  I  replace  the  note- 
book with  a  powerful  laptop  computer,  and 
I  provide  that  computer  with  access  to  the 
knowledge  of  the  world  through  the  Inter- 
net, can  I  change  attitudes  about  learning? 
Can  I  make  learning  really  exciting?  Kids 
today  say  that  school  is  'boring,  boring,  bor- 
ing.' My  great  hope  is  that  this  can  make 
learning  more  exciting  than  MTV.  We're  at 


war  for  children's  minds,  and  there  are  all 
kinds  of  other  factors  out  there  that  are  di- 
verting them  from  the  things  we  think  they 
ought  to  be  interested  in.  That's  what  we're 
about." 

In  some  ways,  Dezell  sees  the  new  ven- 
ture as  the  fulfillment  of  a  promise  he  made 
after  leaving  the  Sewanee  Military  Academy 
(SMA)  where  he  taught  for  a  year  after 
graduating  from  Sewanee.  Mounting  finan- 
cial pressures  ultimately  forced  Dezell  to 
leave  the  classroom  and  join  IBM.  "I  always 
used  to  tell  Bob  Woods,  then  head  of  the 
math  department  at  SMA,  that  I  was  going 
to  make  a  million  dollars  and  come  back 
and  teach.  And,  even  though  I'm  not  in  the 
classroom,  I  think  I  am  making  a  contribu- 
tion," says  Dezell. 

When  he's  not  busy  with  NETSchools, 
which  takes  some  70  hours  of  his  time  each 
week,  Dezell  has  been  working  to  develop 
phonics-based  software  to  teach  adults  to 
read  and  write  through  another  small  com- 
pany he  is  starting  known  as  Sequoyah  Lit- 
eracy Systems.  The  system  is  being  tested  in 
El  Paso,  Texas,  and  South  Africa.  Results 
have  been  impressive  to  date,  says  Dezell. 

With  these  projects  to  keep  him  busy,  it 
appears  that  Dezell  will,  happily,  postpone 
his  retirement  for  years  to  come.  If  his  pro- 
jections about  NETSchools  alone  are  cor- 
rect, the  company  could  see  tremendous 
growth  in  a  short  time.  "It  depends  how 
things  go.  Will  we  have  any  glitches?  Will 
this  really  be  a  new  paradigm  that  will  im- 
prove learning?  If  it  is,  then  the  schools  that 
have  it  will  have  to  expand  it  and  those  that 
don't  will  want  it.  If  we  can  provide  a  dra- 
matic improvement  in  learning,  then 
people  will  beat  our  door  down.  This  is  a 
legitimate  billion  dollar  opportunity. 
Whether  we  will  make  it,  whether  we'll  stub 
our  toe,  or  somebody  will  come  in  and 
crush  us,  that  all  remains  to  be  seen.  It  won't 
be  easy,  but  the  potential  is  there  and  it  will 
be  fun." 


"M 


great  hope 

is  that  this 

can  make 

learning  more 

exciting 

than  MTV. 

We  re  at  war 

for  children's 

minds,  and 
. . .  other  factors 
out  there. . .  are 

diverting 
them  from  the 
things. . .  they 

ought  to  be 
interested  in" 


The  University  of  the  South 


13 


1  • 


* 


w 


For  more 

than  a 
hundred 

years, 

Sewanee's 

stonemasons 

have  helped 

shape  the 

character 

of  the 
University. 


hen  Carl  Reid 
walks  around  the 
campus,  he  sees 
things  that  you 
and  I  don't  see. 
He  looks  up  at  the  rose  window  at  All 
Saints'  Chapel  and  it's  1957  and 
there's  his  brother,  Clarence,  stand- 
ing on  scaffolding  50  feet  above  the 
ground.  ra 

He  can  still  see  his 
brother  piecing  the  win- 
dow together,  setting 
each  stone  by  hand.  It's 
delicate,  meticulous 
work — hundreds  of  piec- 
es of  cut  stone  went  into 
the  window. 

Reid  makes  his  way 
inside  All  Saints'  and 
looks  at  the  interior 
arches.  From  1904-10, 
his  grandfather  was  a 
stonemason  on  the  chap- 
el. It  was  all  hand-cut 
work  back  then.  A  single  piece  of 
stone  for  an  arch  in  the  chapel  took 
a  mason  like  his  grandfather  a  week 
to  cut  and  finish. 

Across  the  quadrangle  in  Convoca- 
tion Hall,  Reid  marvels  at  the  stone- 
work in  the  fireplaces.  The  finish  on 
the  stone  is  a  smooth  ashlar,  unlike  the 
rough  ashlar  on  the  exterior  of  cam- 


pus buildings.  In  1886,  when  Convoca- 
tion was  constructed,  masons  used 
only  chisels  and  points  and  hammers 
to  shape  the  stone  for  the  fireplaces. 
Reid  says  that  it's  some  of  the  finest 
stonework  you'll  find  anywhere. 

Reid  is  an  authority  on  Sewanee's 
stonework.  He  retired  from  the  Uni- 
versity in  1990  after  working  in  physi- 
cal plant  services  for  al- 
most 25  years.  Four  gen- 
erations of  Reids  have 
cut  and  set  stone  for 
campus  buildings.  Reid's 
father,  who  taught  him 
much  about  stonema- 
sonry,  set  the  stone  for 
^/  >d  the  gates  that  welcome 
visitors  to  the  Domain. 
Working  for  building 
contractors,  Carl  Reid 
was  the  master  mason  on 
All  Saints'  and  oversaw 
much  of  the  work  for  the 
stone  building  boom  in 
the  1950s  and  1960s  that  was  master- 
minded by  Vice-Chancellor  Edward 
McCrady.  All  Saints',  Gailor,  Juhan 
Gymnasium,  Phillips,  Gorgas,  Hunter, 
Walsh-Ellett,  duPont  Library,  and 
Woods  Laboratory:  all  of  these  build- 
ings have  McCrady 's  vision  and  Reid's 
sweat  and  heart  in  them. 

"Dr.  McCrady  was  the  most  intelli- 


6  £    A 

hundred 

years  is 
nothing 
when  it 
comes 
to  stone. 
"We've 
tested  our 
buildings 
tor  over  a 
hundred 
years,  and 
they  have 
withstood 
the  test 


■■"■'  '• 


HOUSTON  KING 

UNIVERSITY 

STONEMASON 


BY  ROBERT  BRADFORD 

PHOTOGRAPHY  BY  STEPHEN  ALVAREZ, C'87 


The  university  of  the  South 


1  5 


OMANCI 

Stone 


Below,  stonemason  Houston  King. 
Right,  St.  Luke's  Chapel,  the  only  solid 

stone  architecture  remaining  on  campus. 

Far  right,  All  Saints '  Chapel  stands  as  a 
magnificent  testimony  to  generations  of 
artistry  and  craftsmanship  cut  in  stone. 


U' 


Being  a 

stonemason, 

it's  something 

you're  more  or 

less  born  with," 

King  says. 


gent  man  I  ever  met.  He  used  to  say 
that  we  weren't  building  for  a  hun- 
dred years,  we  were  building  for  a 
thousand  years,"  says  Reid.  "And  he 
was  right." 

"When  you  think  about  Sewanee," 
says  Reid  as  he  sits  in  a  home  he  built 
on  the  Domain  veneered  with  local 
stone,  "you  think  about  the  native 
sandstone." 

Listening  to  Carl  Reid,  you  begin  to 
see  that  Sewanee's  distinct  character  is 
tied  to  stone.  Along  with  professors 
and  priests,  students  and  gowns,  fog 
and  dogs,  the  native  sandstone 
buildings  have  helped  to  define  the 
ethos  of  the  campus. 

"Sewanee's  architecture... expres- 
ses, or  attempts  to  express,  respect  for 
tradition  and  for  the  Anglican  origins 


of  the  institution,  particularly  those  of 
Oxford,"  observed  University  Histori- 
ographer Arthur  Ben  Chitty,  C'35,  in 
his  essay,  "Sewanee:  Then  and  Now." 
"Even  the  most  casual  onlooker  is  im- 
mediately persuaded  that  he  is  in  a 
place  where  learning  and  religion  are 
joined." 

"fSo  learn  more  about  the 
craft  of  stonework,  I 
spent  some  time  with 
Houston  King,  the  Uni- 
versity's current  stone- 
mason. Part  of  a  vanishing  breed, 
King  is  a  lean,  wiry  man  with  a  thick 
mustache  and  powerful  hands.  He 
has  worked  with  stone  for  more  than 
half  his  life. 

"Being  a  stonemason,  it's  some- 
thing you're  more  or  less  born  with," 


16 


Sewanee/April  1997 


King  says.  "Sometimes  I  look  at  it  as 
a  curse.  There's  a  lot  of  back-break- 
ing work  involved.  That's  why  there 
aren't  many  stonemasons  around." 

We  drive  out  to  an  old  quarry  off 
of  Brakefield  Road  from  which  came 
the  stone  for  All  Saints'  and  Guerry 
Hall.  Now  the  site  is  part  of  the  Pe- 
rimeter Trail.  You  wouldn't  know 
that  tons  of  stone  were  taken  from 
this  area.  "Look  at  all  those  yellow 
poplars.  Mother  Nature  has  a  way  of 
reclaiming  things,"  King  says. 

Quarries  like  this  one  are  spread 
throughout  the  Domain,  and  the 
abundance  of  high  quality  native 
sandstone  has  played  a  major  role  in 
the  look  and  feel  of  the  campus. 

Formed  on  the  Cumberland  Pla- 
teau some  320  million  years  ago,  the 


sandstone  has  a  distinctive  tan  color. 
A  local  stonemason  can  pick  out 
Sewanee  stone  from  stone  quarried 
in  Crossville,  Tenn.,  which  has  been 
used  in  some  of  the  newer  University 
buildings.  King  picks  up  a  piece  of 
stone  and  moves  it  around  in  his 
hand.  "It's  not  too  hard  and  it's  not 
too  soft.  From  a  stonemason's  view, 
it's  easy  to  work  with,"  he  says. 

Since  the  late  19th  century,  ma- 
sons have  been  quarrying  and  using 
sandstone  on  the  Domain  for  cam- 
pus buildings.  Two  kinds  of  stone 
structures  dominate  campus  archi- 
tecture— cut-stone  buildings,  which 
feature  uniform  stone  blocks  that 
are  quarried  from  large  boulders, 
and  field  stone  or  pick-up  stone 
buildings,  which  include  randomly 


"Sewanee's 
architecture. . . 
attempts  to 
express  respect 
for  tradition 
and  for  the 
Anglican 
origins  of  the 
institution. . . 
Even  the  most 
casual  onlooker 
is  immediately 
persuaded 
that  he  is  in  a 
place  where 
learning  and 
religion  are 
joined.9' 

Arthur  Ben  Chitty,  C35 

UNIVERSITY 
HISTORIOGRAPHER 


The  University  of  the  South 


17 


OMANCIN 

Stone 


At  top  left,  a  craftsman  checks  sidewalk 

stone  for  size,  shape,  and  color.  Above, 

after  final  shaping,  the  stone  is 

permanently  placed.  Top  right,  King 

and  stonecutter  Jeff  Havner  at  Sewanee's 

stone  saw.  Bottom  right,  Havner  checks 

the  saw 's  progress. 


shaped  pieces  of  stone  that  are  gath- 
ered from  the  Domain. 

King  tells  me  that  stonemasons 
look  for  quarry  sites  that  have  a 
"loose  bottom;"  they  want  to  find 
areas  where  the  stone  beds  are  about 
four  feet  thick. 

hen  they  find  the 
right  area,  they 
can  begin  the  pro- 
cess  of  prying 
loose  large  boul- 
ders. They  drill  a  series  of  vertical 
holes  in  the  stone,  and  then  put  a  long, 
tapered  piece  of  steel  called  a  "feather" 
in  each  hole.  Behind  the  feather  they 
place  a  large  wedge,  and  working  with 
the  feather  and  wedge,  masons  can 
break  a  five-ton  boulder  away  from  a 
rock  face. 

"Stonemasons  have  a  saying:  'Mov- 
ing a  mountain  with  feathers  and 
wedges.'  You'd  be  surprised  how  much 
stone  you  can  move  this  way,"  King 
says. 

The  boulders  are  then  taken  to  a 
stone  saw  on  campus  where  they  can 
be  cut  into  usable  blocks.  The  Univer- 
sity has  owned  a  stone  saw  since  the 


Sewanee/April  1997 


1950s.  The  saw  uses  two  large 
wheels  which  pull  two  pieces 
of  steel  wire,  coated  with 
carborundum,  through  the 
stone,  cutting  it  into  blocks 
that  are  approximately  12 
inches  high  by  six  inches 
deep.  The  length  of  the 
stone  varies. 

"The  wire  doesn't  actually 
do  the  cutting.  It's  the  grit 
from  the  carborundum  that 
cuts  the  stone,"  King  says. 

"When  we  started  work  on 
the  Fowler  Center,  the  stone 
saw  hadn't  been  started  in  20 
years,  since  the  building  of 
the  Bishop's  Common,"  says 
King.  "But  we  got  it  running 
and  it's  working  fine." 

"On  a  summer  evening, 
you  can  fall  asleep  listening 
to  the  saw  running  and  the 
crickets  chirping." 

After  the  stone  is  cut  into 
blocks,  a  mason  "pitches  a 
face"  on  the  blocks.  King 
picks  up  a  block  to  show  me 
how  it  works.  Using  a  ham- 
mer and  a  chisel,  he  cuts  a 
four-inch  bevel  around  each 
side  of  the  stone.  He  makes  it 
look  effordess;  in  a  matter  of 
minutes,  the  block  has  a  face. 

"Almost  all  of  the  cut- 
stone  buildings  on  campus 
are  veneered  with  these  \V/2 
thick  stone  blocks.  The  only 
building  that's  solid  stone  is 
St.  Luke's  Chapel,"  says  King. 

King  looks  forward  to  the  Uni- 
versity's next  major  stone  building — 
the  University  Commons.  The  new 
dining  hall  will  be  located  across  from 
All  Saints'  Chapel  and  will  help  to  form 
a  new  quadrangle  on  campus.  He's  re- 
searching quarry  sites  on  campus  for 
this  project.  He  and  others  at  the  Uni- 


"When 
you  think 
about 

Sewanee, 
you  think 
about 
the  native 
sandstone.* 


versity  want  to  see  the  University  Com- 
mons created  from  Sewanee  sandstone. 
"I'd  like  to  be  involved  in  one  major 
building  before  I  leave  this  world," 
King  tells  me.  "I  feel  that  a  hundred 
years  is  nothing  when  it  comes  to 
stone.  We've  tested  our  stone  build- 
ings for  over  a  hundred  years,  and 
they  have  withstood  the  test." 


Tommy  Pack,  left,  ivas  a  stonecutter  in  the 
1950s  and  60s  when  much  of  the  major 
construction  on  campus  took  place. 
He  is  pictured  above  (bottom  roio,  far 
left)  at  a  quarry  site  which  yielded 
the  stone  for  All  Saints '  Chapel 
and  several  other  buildings. 


The  University  of  the  South 


19 


mount 


t  til 


How  noes  bewanee 

maintain  its  strong 

connection  to  the 

Church  in  a 


Corrie  Norman 


i 


his  year's  freshman  class  completed  an  infor- 
mation survey  which  included  the  question: 
How  important  was  the  fact  Sewanee  is  a 
church-related  institution  in  your  choice  of 
this  college?  Approximately  44  percent  said  it 
was  very  or  somewhat  important.  Twenty-four 
percent  said  of  little  importance,  and  about  32 
percent  said  of  no  importance. 

The  two  ends  of  the  spectrum  reflect  the 
tension  of  life  at  a  church-related  institution  in 
the  postmodern  era. 

Students  at  Sewanee  live  with  the  reality  that 
one  day  they  may  receive  an  E-mail  announc- 
ing that  portions  of  University  Avenue  will  be 
closed  for  a  religious  procession  while  another 
evening  they  find  a  roadblock  at  Brakefield 
Road  to  help  them  walk  unhindered  to  Lake 
Cheston  for  a  rock  concert. 

Despite  this  paradox,  most  students  at 
Sewanee  take  religion  to  meet  a  philosophy/ 
religion  requirement.  A  large  percentage  then 
return  to  take  two  or  three  more  religion 
courses.  Students  in  humanities  complained 
when  religion  was  dropped  in  the  fourth  term 
of  the  modern  world  curriculum,  says  Assistant 
Professor  of  Religion  Corrie  Norman. 

Community  service  is  not  required.  Eighty  - 
seven  students,  however,  spent  spring  break 
this  year  working  in  one  of  five  outreach  trips 
at  church-related  projects  in  inner  cities,  Latin 
America,  and  the  Caribbean.  "We  are  doing 
outreach  ministry  specifically  through  the 
chaplaincy  office  rather  than  under  student 
affairs  or  community  service  which  gives  us  the 
license  to  use  'God  talk,'  "  says  Dixon  Myers, 
outreach  director.  Myers  is  one  of  four  full- 
time  lay  and  clergy  senior  staff  of  the  chaplain's 
office. 

This  is  what  one  professor  called  narratives 
coUidingand  what  Rhodes  College  religion  pro- 
fessor Stephen  Haynes  calls  the  enduring  para- 
dox of  church-related  colleges:  there  exists  an 
ongoing  tension  between  disparate  elements 
and  interests  that  must  be  managed  through 
changing  conditions. 

Sewanee,  for  all  intents  and  purposes, 
handles  its  church  relatedness  very  well,  discov- 
ered Norman,  who  has  represented  the  Uni- 
versity of  the  South  in  a  two-year  study  of 
American  church-affiliated  colleges  funded  by 
the  Lilly  Foundation  of  Indianapolis  and  ad- 
ministered through  Rhodes  College  in  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 


The  "Rhodes  Consultation  on  the  Future  of 
the  Church-Related  College,"  brings  junior  fac- 
ulty from  a  dozen  church-related  colleges 
around  the  country  to  discuss  the  topic. 
Norman  was  selected  from  a  pool  of  150  appli- 
cants to  participate  in  those  discussions. 

Where  are  church-related  colleges  today  in 
shifting  western  culture?  Where  are  they 
headed  when,  in  response  to  increased  secular- 
ization, they  drop  chaplaincy  programs  and  cre- 
ate religion  departments,  distance  themselves 
from  denominational  ties,  remove  crosses  from 
their  buildings  or  change  their  names? 

Sewanee  has  been  addressing  the  issue  of 
what  it  means  to  be  an  Episcopal  university 
for  the  past  several  years.  University-wide  dis- 
cussions about  these  complex  questions  have 
been  moderated  by  both  Vice-Chancellor 
Samuel  Williamson  and  LIniversity  Chaplain 
Tom  Ward,  C'67. 

The  Lilly  Foundation  wanted  new  faculty  on 
these  church-related  campuses  to  examine  the 
issues. 

"Lilly  likes  people  to  talk,"  says  Norman. 
"That's  the  first  stage  of  the  Rhodes  Consulta- 
tion." 

In  1995,  the  12  faculty  members  read  se- 
lected papers,  books,  and  articles  and  gathered 
at  Rhodes  for  discussion  of  the  Christian  Uni- 
versity. 

In  1996,  each  member  was  asked  to  convene 
similar  discussions  on  their  campus.  At 
Sewanee,  Norman  invited  35  junior  faculty,  who 
have  taught  here  between  two  and  five  years,  to 
participate.  More  than  25  said  they  were  inter- 
ested; 18  participated,  representing  all  disci- 
plines, most  coming  from  the  social  sciences  or 
humanities,  and  one  from  the  School  of  Theol- 
ogy. There  were  eight  women,  10  men  and  four 
minorities.  Seven  were  Episcopalians,  one  was 
Jewish,  the  rest  affiliated  with  various  Christian 
denominations. 

Again,  they  read  assigned  papers  and  books, 
and  met  to  discuss  the  named  topic  of  "Church- 
Relatedness  and  the  Postmodern  Opportunity 
at  Sewanee." 

Last  November  they  gathered  for  a  dinner- 
discussion  and  later  a  University-wide  open 
panel  discussion  chaired  by  Warren  Nord,  pro- 
fessor of  philosophy  at  the  University  of  North 
Carolina  at  Chapel  Hill  and  author  of  Religion 
and  American  Education.  They  also  were  joined 
by  Stephen  Haynes  from  Rhodes. 


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21 


Caught  between  two 

worlds,  Corrie  Norman 

keeps  the  faith. 


"The  junior  faculty  asked  very  difficult  ques- 
tions about  this  place — serious,  soul-searching 
questions,"  says  Norman.  "Those  that  felt  the 
most  marginalized  in  this  place  said  that,  for  the 
first  time,  these  conversations  made  them  feel 
they  had  some  ownership  in  the  school." 

This  May  kicks  off  the  second  stage  of  the 
Lilly-Rhodes  discussion:  a  national  interdiscipli- 
nary conference  on  "The  Church-Related 
College's  Postmodern  Opportunity,"  to  be  held 
May  2-4  at  Rhodes. 

Selected  faculty  from  church-related  col- 
leges, other  than  the 
Rhodes  Consultation 
participants,  will  de- 
liver papers  which  en- 
compass topics  such 
as  the  challenge  of 
postmodernism,  ped- 
agogy, tradition,  secu- 
larization and  distinc- 
tiveness, multicultur- 
alism,  faith  and  aca- 
demic freedom,  and 
Generation  X  and  the 
church-related  col- 
lege. Presenters  in- 
clude scholars  from 
Pepperdine,  Valpor- 
aiso,  Brigham  Young, 
Princeton,  Purdue, 
LaSalle,  Whitworth, 
St  John's,  Calvin,  Augs- 
burg, Emory,  George- 
town, and  Pacific  Lu- 
theran. Papers  from 
this  conference  will  be 
published  in  a  volume 
edited  by  Haynes  and 
Norman. 

What  is   postmod- 
2j  ernism  and  what  does 
it  mean  for  Sewanee? 
"It's  easier  to  say  what  it's  not,  than  what 
it  is,"  says  Norman.  "Suspicion,  cynicism  of 
absolute  truths,  of  the  objective  scientific  en- 
terprise. Conservatives  say  post-modern  is 
post-Christian,  or  anti-religion." 

However,  by  calling  into  question  all  the  ab- 
solute truth,  or  the  method  of  obtaining  abso- 
lute truth,  ironically  this  new  post-modern  era 
may  have  actually  opened  up  a  space  for  "reli- 
gious particularity,"  Norman  says. 


For  instance,  she  notes,  when  Rhodes  set  out 
to  be  one  of  the  best  liberal  arts  colleges  in  the 
country,  it  changed  its  name.  The  implication 
being:  you  cannot  be  Southwestern  Presbyte- 
rian University  and  be  one  of  the  best  colleges 
in  the  country. 

"What  postmodernism  might  say  is,  look — 
revel  in  your  particularity.  You  might  be  the  best 
Presbyterian  college  in  the  country.  Whether  or 
not  you're  the  best  college  in  the  country,  you 
still  are  confined  to  some  sort  of  particular  area 
and  people  you  cater  to." 

And  Sewanee? 

"I  sort  of  call  us  the  first  postmodernists,  be- 
cause we  sort  of  relish  relativism,"  she  says  with 
a  smile. 

"Anglicanism  always  has  been  reluctant  to  nail 
things  down  to  a  theological  proposition.  There's 
always  a  good  deal  of  latitude.  How  we  define  our- 
selves does  not  come  down  to  the  Augsburg  Con- 
fession or  the  Heidelberg  Catechism  or  this  sort  of 
filing.  We've  got  the  39  Articles  of  Religion,  but 
privately  we've  always  held  that  people  have  the 
right  to  believe  what  they  want.  It's  between  them 
and  their  God.  And  as  long  as  they  come  and 
kneel  in  the  right  places  and  subscribe  to  worship, 
that's  what  builds  community." 

Sewanee  sits  much  more  happily  with  its 
church  relatedness  than  other  colleges  in  the 
Rhodes  Consultation,  both  Catholic  and  Prot- 
estant. That's  because,  Norman  says,  most  of 
the  Protestant  schools  have  divested  themselves 
of  their  churchliness,  and  to  redeem  that  iden- 
tity is  nearly  impossible. 

The  reasons  the  colleges  divested  themselves 
of  that  defining  identity — be  it  Presbyterian, 
Methodist,  or  whatever — was  primarily  because 
of  doctrinal  belief  and  academic  freedom  issues. 

Episcopalians  do  not  have  such  a  constrain- 
ing doctrinal  belief  that  would  not  allow  aca- 
demic freedom  or  rational  inquiry. 

"This  is  all  part  of  living  within  the  'enduring 
paradox,'  "  says  Norman.  Episcopalians  hold  in 
tension  opposing  interpretations  of  their  faith, 
while  living  in  the  modern  changing  world. 

"Many  Christian  colleges  are  going  in  the 
other  direction,"  says  Norman.  Conservative 
Baptist  schools  are  either  growing  or  go- 
ing through  death  pains.  Catholic  colleges 
have  a  more  liberal  community  than  the 
church,  but  the  religious  orders  are  dying 
out.  Norman  says  they  either  will  become 
secularized  or  get  a  "bishop  to  take  over  and 


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wrestle  control  from  the  order." 

"I  can't  imagine  a  similar  scenario  in  a  place 
like  this.  The  problem  is  coming  from  hierar- 
chy. What  would  it  look  like  to  have  a  doctrinal 
document  that  everyone  would  have  to  sign?" 

That  would  never  happen  in  Sewanee. 

The  key  is,  how  do  we  define  ourselves?  And 
if  it's  not  doctrinally,  how  is  it? 

"That's  our  ace  in  the  hole,"  she  says.  "Angli- 
canism is  a  very  embodied  form  of  religion.  What 
counts  is  the  bishop's  fringe  on  the  garment,  the 
liturgy,  all  that  kind  of  stuff,  and  the  kind  of  tilings 
I  teach  when  I  teach  English  Reformation." 

"Students  can't  believe  they  fought  over  this 
stuff.  But  it's  not  as  silly  as  it  seems.  That's  the  real 
posunodern  opportunity  for  a  place  like  this." 

Sewanee  has  an  identity  that  is  much  easier 
to  maintain,  that  was  much  more  easily  main- 
tained in  the  modern  world,  and  will  continue 
to  be  in  the  postmodern  world  because  it  is  sym- 
bolic, ritualistic,  and  incarnate,  not  relational, 
theological,  or  dialectical  in  its  nature,  she  says. 

"Now  that  doesn't  mean,  congratulations 
Sewanee,  we're  the  postmodern  university,"  she 
says.  "Because  we  aren't.  There  are  all  sorts  of 
issues  to  contend  with  because  symbols  aren't 
just  symbols  and  rituals  aren't  just  rituals." 

What  is  the  difference  between  an  enduring 
value  and  a  quaint  tradition? 

That  is  the  question  Sewanee  students  ask, 
although  they  don't  know  how  to  raise  it  well, 
she  adds. 

"Tradition  is  the  living  faith  of  the  dead,  not 
the  dead  faith  of  the  living,"  Norman  says.  Stu- 
dents constantly  ask,  what  does  all  this  mean  if 
it  doesn't  say  something  about  who  we  are  now} 
What  does  where  we  came  from  have  to  say 
about  who  we  are? 

"I've  had  to  take  that  question  a  lot  more  se- 
riously since  I've  been  teaching.  It  was  much 
easier  to  avoid  that  question  when  I  was  just  a 
researcher.  And  the  question  is  what  does  the 
narrative  of  Sewanee,  its  symbols  and  rituals, 
hold  for  today?" 

What  traditions  need  to  be  preserved  and  let 
go?  Things  change.  Symbols  and  rituals  stay  the 
same,  and  some  also  adapt. 

Take  Convocation,  she  says.  "People  think  it's 
been  that  way  for  years.  Talk  to  senior  colleagues. 
Convocation  has  changed  drastically  in  the  last 
several  years.  It  used  to  be  just  the  regular  noon- 
day service.  If  somebody  needed  to  get  a  gown, 
they  got  a  gown.  They  never  had  a  big  ceremony 


where  everybody  got  this  black  robe." 

Norman  has  discovered,  however,  the  defining 
traditions  make  a  difference  to  the  students.  If  the 
student  body  grows  larger,  it  may  not  be  possible 
to  hold  commencement  in  All  Saints'.  When  she 
asks  her  students  what  would  they  think  about 
being  the  first  modem  class  not  to  graduate  in  the 
chapel,  they're  horrified  by  the  thought. 

"But  they  don't  know  why  they're  horrified," 
she  says.  "That's  part  of  Sewanee." 

"Just  because  we  have  an  incarnate 
and  embodied  style  of 
manifesting  our  iden- 
tity doesn't  mean  our 
students  aren't  going  to 
let  us  escape  the  truth 
question.  Post-mod- 
ernism provides  a  very 
interesting  context  to 
explore  that  because  it 
wants  to  table  the  ques- 
tion all  together." 

Norman's  next  step 
is  to  look  at  what  Se- 
wanee 's  future  as  a 
church-related  college 
will  be,  to  look  at  its  his- 
tory and  founding 
story.  She  isn't  interes- 
ted in  figuring  out  what 
the  facts  are  or  why  it 
was  done,  but  how  the 
school  embodies  itself  in 
instances  where  that 
changes  over  time. 

And  she  has  much  to 
study.  Sewanee  today 
has  all  the  traditions, 
rituals,  symbols,  that 
give  it  definition.  It  is 
blatantly  up  front  about 
its  relationship  to  the 
Episcopal  Church;  the 

presence  of  a  School  of  Theology  is  a  critical 
piece  of  that  identity 

"We're  bucking  the  trend,"  said  Norman. 
"Other  Protestant  schools  have  said  'in  order 
for  us  to  not  just  survive,  but  to  thrive,  we  have 
to  become  less  of  what  we  were.'  We  say,  in  or- 
der for  us  to  survive  and  thrive,  we  have  to  be 
more  than  what  we  are.  We  have  to  invite  more 
people  to  the  banquet.  And  that's  another 
postmodern  twist  that's  hard  for  Sewanee." 


"Other  Protestant 

schools  have 

said  'in  order 

for  us  to  not  just 

survive,  hut  to 

thrive,  we  have 

to  become  less 

of  what  we 
were.'  We  say, 
in  order  for  us 
to  survive  and 
thrive,  we  have 
to  he  more  than 
what  we  are." 

CORRIB  NORMAN 


The  University  of  the  South 


SCAC  1996-97 

Player  of  the  Year 

Ryan  Harrigan 

reaches  high. 


Men's  Basketball 

This  past  March,  when  the  men's  basketball  team 
gathered  in  the  basement  of  duPont  Library  to  watch  the 
NCAA  Division  III  Tournament  selection  show  on  satel- 
lite TV,  the  mood  was  a  far  cry  from  the  same  gathering  a 
year  earlier.  After  the  1995-96  season,  the  Tigers  won- 
dered if  they  could  eke  out  an  at-large  tournament  berth 
with  an  18-7  record  (they  didn't).  This  year,  they  won- 
dered if  they  would  earn  the  privilege  of  hosting  a  first 
round  game  (they  did). 

This  time  the  Tigers  knew  they  were  in.  Along  with  an 
18-6  record,  they  had  won  the  Southern  Collegiate  Ath- 
letic Conference  (SCAC)  regular-season  championship, 
which  gave  them  the  automatic  bid.  Five  minutes  into  the 
selection  show,  the  room  delighted  in  the  announcement 
of  a  home  game  versus  Rust  College  (Miss.)  on  March  6. 

It  was  cause  for  celebration;  the  last  time  Sewanee 
advanced  to  the  NCAA  Tournament,  or  for  that  matter, 
won  a  league  championship,  was  the  1975-76  season 
when  Coach  Mac  Petty's  team  went  17-10,  and  won  the 
College  Athletic  Conference  title.  That  season  was  also 
the  freshman  year  of  fifth-year  head  coach  Joe  Thoni, 
C'79.  The  Tigers  defeated  Rust  on  Thursday;  it  was  the 
first  time  in  school  history  that  the  team  had  won  an 
NCAA  playoff  game. 

Four  days  after  the  Rust  victory,  students  and 
townsfolk  jammed  the  gym  one  more  time,  only  to  watch 
Sewanee's  16-game  home  winning  streak  come  to  an  end 
in  a  65-62  squeaker  against  Bridgewater  College. 

Sewanee's  season  ended  at  19-7,  its  most  wins  since  the 
1974-75  squad  went  20-7.  It  was  also  the  fifth  consecutive 


season  the  Tigers  have  finished  with  a  better  record  than 
that  of  the  previous  year.  There  was  little  disappointment. 

During  the  pre-season,  the  Tigers  were  picked  to  fin- 
ish third  in  the  league — right  where  they  left  off  in  '96. 
Stocked  with  six  first-year  players,  four  returning  sopho- 
mores, three  juniors,  and  one  senior,  Sewanee  was  per- 
haps seen  as  a  squad  with  some  building  to  do. 

"We  actually  had  a  better  team  last  year,  as  far  as  expe- 
rience goes,"  said  Thoni.  "Our  captains,  Jason  Porter, 
Ryan  Harrigan,  and  Turner  Emery,  got  a  lot  of  minutes 
last  year,  and  were  able  to  make  a  lot  of  big  plays  this  year. 
We  also  won  a  lot  of  close  games." 

Despite  youth,  the  team  persevered,  and  managed  to 
stay  atop  the  SCAC  for  most  of  the  season. 

"Our  younger  guys  got  better  as  the  season  pro- 
gressed; the  experienced  guys  stepped  up,  and  made 
plays  when  they  needed  to,"  said  Thoni. 

Likely  though,  Sewanee's  basketball  accomplishments 
this  year  would  not  have  been  possible  without  juniors 
Harrigan  and  Emery.  The  guard-forward  duo  led  the 
squad  in  almost  every  game  this  season. 

"They  were  the  top  two  players  in  the  conference," 
said  Thoni.  "They  really  held  us  together.  Their  consis- 
tency in  making  big  plays  game  in  and  game  out  was  cru- 
cial to  our  success." 

This  season,  both  surpassed  the  1,000-point  mile- 
stones for  their  careers.  Harrigan  currently  has  1,114 
points,  which  ranks  15th  among  Sewanee's  all-time  scor- 
ing leaders.  Emery's  1,093  points  ranks  18th. 

With  Porter  as  the  team's  only  loss  to  graduation,  the 
Tigers  sport  an  excellent  chance  to  repeat  as  conference 
champs  next  season.  In  the  always-tough  SCAC,  where 
the  parity  seems  to  tighten  up  more  each  season,  it  will  be 
interesting  to  see  where  the  coaches  pick  Sewanee  to  fin- 
ish next  year. 

"Every  year,  we  have  a  chance  to  contend,"  said  Thoni. 

Sewanee  Sweeps  Player-of-the-Year, 
Coach-of-the-Year  Honors 

In  exclusive  voting  by  the  head  coaches  of  the  South- 
ern Collegiate  Athletic  Conference  (SCAC) ,  the  Sewanee 

men's  basketball  team  swept 
die  highest  post-season  hon- 
ors. Center  Ryan  Harrigan 
was  named  1996-97  SCAC 
Player-of-the-Year,  and 
head  coach  Joe  Thoni  was 
^^W  named    Coach-of-the-Year. 

^^^t  ^k  ^^  Coaches  could  not  vote  for 

^k   \  ^B    K^      themselves  or  for  their  own 

Mml       players" 

I  I     AflskV  Harrigan,  a  junioi 

■  — --3^-      nomics  and  Spanish  major 

Basketball  Coach  Joe  Thoni       c  .,,  XT ., 

'  from  Albuquerque,  N.M., 

finished  the  regular  season  on  top  of  the  SCAC  in  scor- 


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S    P    O    R  T   S 


ing,  averaging  18.8  points  per  game.  He  also  finished  as 
the  SCAC's  fourth-leading  rebounder  at  7.5  boards  per 
game,  and  with  the  league's  third-best  field  goal  percent- 
age (54%).  Three  times  this  season,  he  was  named  SCAC 
Player-of-the-Week. 

Thoni  came  to  Sewanee  in  1 992  and  took  over  a  Sewanee 
basketball  program  which  had  not  had  a  winning  season  in 
five  years;  his  first  Tiger  team  finished  13-12.  Thoni  pro- 
ceeded to  compile  winning  and  improved  records  over  the 
next  four  seasons.  His  four  teams  from  1993-97  went,  re- 
spectively, 14-11,  15-10,  and  18-7,  and  19-7. 

His  teams  have  been  regionally  ranked  much  of  the 
last  two  seasons,  and  in  January  of  this  year,  Sewanee  was 
ranked  nationally  as  high  as  14th. 

Thoni's  current  college  coaching  record  is  79-47 
(.627);  he  has  produced  six  All-Conference  play- 
ers in  Harrigan,  C'98,  Turner  Emery,  C'98, 
Hunter  Connelly,  C'96,  Pete  Dillon,  C'96,  Eric 
Ochel,  C'95,  and  Chris  Millen,  C'94. 

Before  coming  to  Sewanee,  Thoni 
coached  at  Montgomery  Bell  Academy  (MBA)  in  Nash- 
ville where  he  compiled  a  record  of  72-46  during  his 
four  seasons.  During  his  final  season,  MBA  won  23 
games  and  captured  regular  season  and  tournament 
championships  in  its  district. 

A  native  of  Nashville,  Thoni  graduated  from  MBA 
before  attending  Sewanee.  As  a  college  player,  he  was 
a  four-year  letterman  and  served  as  captain  his  senior 
year.  He  holds  a  bachelor's  degree  in  economics  and 
earned  his  masters  of  business  administration  degree 
from  Tulane  University  in  1982. 

Women's  Basketball 

Under  first-year  coach  Richard  Barron,  the  women 
posted  a  13-12  record  and  enjoyed  their  first  winning  sea- 
son in  10  years. 

The  Tigers  started  strong  and  got  off  to  the  best  start 
in  school  history,  going  7-1.  The  women  were  ranked  in 
the  nation  in  early  January,  posting  the  20th  spot  in  the 
Columbus  Multimedia  poll. 

This  year  the  Tigers  were  led  by  Kim  Fauls,  C'97, 
who  closed  out  an  outstanding  four  years  and  placed 
herself  among  the  best  in  Sewanee's  record  books.  Sta- 
tistically, Fauls  was  a  team  leader  all  year.  She  finished 
the  season  averaging  15.5  points  per  game  (4th 
SCAC),  6.9  rebounds  per  game  (10th  SCAC),  1.4 
blocks  per  game  (4th  SCAC),  and  shooting  74.8  per- 
cent from  the  free  throw  line  (3rd  SCAC). 

A  force  inside  for  all  four  years,  Fauls  finished  her  ca- 
reer with  1,559  points,  which  ranks  third  among  the  all- 
time  scoring  leaders  for  Sewanee  women's  basketball.  Just 
ahead  of  her  are  all-time  leader  Kim  Valek,  C'87,  who 
scored  1,777  points  from  1983-87,  and  Sophie  Brawner, 
C'83,  who  scored  1,589  points  from  1979-83. 

Brandi  Poole  was  another  four-year  standout.  She  sur- 


passed the  1 ,000-point  mark  for  her  career  against  Agnes 
Scott  College,  and  finished  with  1 ,088  points,  ranking  her 
sixth  in  the  all-time  scoring  list.  Poole  also  climbed  the  all- 
time  rankings  in  rebounds. 

Another  four-year  player,  Janie  Taylor,  C'97  closed  out 
her  career  as  Sewanee's  all-time  assist  leader  with  205. 


Swimming  and  Diving 


The  men's  and  women's  swimming  and  diving  teams 
once  again  had  successful  seasons  under  third-year  head 
coach  Max  Obermiller.  The  men  posted  a  7-4  won-loss 
record  in  dual  meets  while  the  women  were  8-3. 

Sewanee  again  hosted  the  annual  Southern  Collegiate 
Athletic  Conference  Swimming  and  Diving  Invitational. 
Both  Sewanee  teams,  which  won  their  respective  meets 
one  year  ago,  finished  second  out  of  seven  teams  to  Trin- 
ity University.  Despite  runner-up  status,  the  two  teams 
combined  for  an  impressive  32  school  records  with  the 
women's  team  setting  17  of  them. 

Sewanee  had  three  athletes  qualify  for  the  Division  III 
Championships,  held  at  Miami  University  in  Oxford, 
Ohio.  They  were  divers  Jon  Morris,  C'99,  and  Mackenzie 
Johnson,  C'99,  and  swimmer  Robbie  Spruill,  C'97. 

Morris,  perhaps  the  most  prolific  diver  in  Sewanee  his- 
tory, was  named  to  the  Ail-American  Team  following  the 
1997  NCAA  Division  III  Swimming  &  Diving  Champion- 
ships held  March  19-21. 

He  placed  12th  and  eighth,  respectively,  in  one  and 
three-meter  diving.  And  by  finishing  in  the  top  eight  of  at 
least  one  event,  he  earned  Ail-American  recognition  for 
the  second  consecutive  year.  Last  year  at  the  NCAA 
Championships,  he  earned  Honorable  Mention  All- 
American  by  finishing  in  the  top  16  from  both  boards. 

Morris  and  Johnson  currendy  boast  all  four  possible 
Sewanee  diving  records,  and  reset  the  records  at  the  SCAC 
Invitational.  Johnson  advanced  to  die  NCAA  Championships 
for  the  first  time,  and  Morris  went  for  die  second  time. 

— Larry  Dagenhart 


Above  left,  Jon  Morris, 
C'99,  in  motion  during 
diving  competition.  Right, 
the  Sewanee  women 's 
swimming  team 
celebrates  a  win. 


The  University  of  the  South 


25 


THEOLOGIA 


Gathering  the  Clan 


Visiting  with  old 

friends  and  making 

new  friends  may 

be  the  redeeming 

grace  of  General 

Convention 


This  summer  the  Episcopal  Church  will  again 
gather  in  General  Convention.  For  10  days  in  July 
in  Philadelphia,  we  will  talk,  hold  hearings,  vote 
on  a  variety  of  resolutions,  elect  a  new  Presiding 
Bishop,  and  worship  and  visit  with  one  another.  At  any 
General  Convention,  there  are  moments  of  great  spiri- 
tual power,  even  joy.  Ideals  and  visions  are  presented. 
Hope  springs  eternal.  For  the  next  three  years,  maybe 
we  Episcopalians  will  be  better  Christians  than  we  have 
been  in  the  past. 

But,  having  been  there  too  many  times,  I  remain 
strongly  unconvinced  that  this  is  the  best  way  to  do 
church  business.  Despite  good  organization  from  the 
General  Convention  office,  Pam  Chinnis'  open  and  re- 
sponsive leadership,  and  committed  hard  work  from 
many  on  the  national  Church  Center  staff,  an  ostensi- 
bly comprehensive  legislative  congress  once  every 
three  years  is  not  an  adequate  vehicle  to  deal  with  the 
complex  matters  before  the  Church.  The  House  of 
Deputies  is  far  from  representative  of  the  whole 
Church.  The  voices  of  the  hard  left  and  the  hard  right 
are  seriously  over-represented.  Diocesan  activists  with 
compelling  personal  agendas  dominate  delegations. 
Rigid  positions,  political  correctness,  and  lack  of 
knowledge  mar  the  debates.  Attributions  of  bad  mo- 
tives and  character  assassination  make  victims  of  listen- 
ing and  trust.  Votingas  a  way  to  decide  important  theo- 
logical, ecclesiological,  liturgical,  and  social  issues  has 
been  the  bane  of  church  councils  from  Nicaea  to 
Vatican  I  and  beyond.  But,  whether  I  approve  or  not, 
the  Episcopal  Church  will  meet  in  General  Convention 
in  Philadelphia  in  July;  and  I,  of  course,  will  be  there. 

Sewanee  will  be  very  visible  in  the  exhibition  hall 
and  quite  substantially  in  the  two  Houses.  The  last 
three  Presiding  Bishops,  the  "owning"  bishops,  and 
many  others  in  the  House  of  Bishops  have  Sewanee 
connections.  Scores  of  Deputies  have  some  direct  rela- 
tionship to  the  Mountain,  and  many  others  have  par- 
ticipated in  EFM  or  DOCC.  The  University  of  the 
South  booth  will  again  raise  its  very  recognizable 
arc  lies  (no  not  "golden  arches,"  no  food  for  sale);  and, 
for  the  first  time,  the  Programs  Center  will  have  a  sepa- 
i  ate  booth  to  celebrate  and  advanc  e  EFM,  DOCC,  the 
Church  Development  Institute,  the  Center  for  Ministry 
in  Small  Churches,  and  our  newest  program  of  spiri- 
tual nurture,  Galilee  Moments.  We  genuinely  look  for- 
ward to  seeing  many  of  you  there. 

In  fact,  visiting  with  old  friends  and  making  new 
friends  may  be  the  redeeming  grace  of  General  Con- 
vention. The  current  cliche  is  that  this  is  the  "gather- 
ing of  the  clan;"  and  like  many  popular  sayings,  it  is 


true.  General  Convention  is  the  "family  reunion"  of 
the  Episcopal  Church;  and,  like  most  families,  we  have 
sibling  rivalries,  age-old  resentments,  and  more  than  a 
trace  of  dysfunction.  But  also  like  families,  blood  (es- 
pecially, in  this  case,  Christ's  eucharistic  blood)  is 
thicker  than  water.  And,  if  we  are  truly  a  Church,  love 
will  keep  us  a  family  around  Christ's  reconciling  table. 

I  especially  look  forward  to  seeing  our  alums:  at  the 
booths,  at  the  Saturday  night  Sewanee  dinner,  and 
elsewhere  throughout  the  10  days.  Good  friends  always 
stop  by.  But  I  particularly  want  to  invite  those  whose 
Sewanee  experience  was  not  good,  whose  anger  still 
festers,  whether  you  left  here  last  year  or  50  years  ago, 
whether  I  was  the  cause  of  your  unhappiness  or  some- 
one or  something  else  was  the  villain.  Please  believe 
that  we  are  always  trying  to  make  the  School  of  Theol- 
ogy better.  We  are  eager  to  listen,  to  ask  your  forgive- 
ness, to  show  you  that  situations  and  people  do 
change,  to  discover  that  misunderstandings  (often 
mutual)  need  not  last  for  all  eternity.  I  marvel  at  the 
letters  I  have  gotten  from  time  to  time  saying  that  the 
writer  will  not  contribute  to  Sewanee  or  have  anything 
to  do  with  us  as  long  as  that  "damned  Dean  X"  is  still 
in  charge. 

Come  to  the  Mountain  or  come  to  Philadelphia  and 
get  to  know  us  now,  who  we  really  are — warts  and  all. 
Let  us  get  to  know  who  you  have  become.  That  build- 
ing or  rebuilding  of  personal  and  institutional  rela- 
tionships is  part  of  what  the  Church  should  be  all 
about.  Perhaps  we  can  be  a  model  and  teacher  for  the 
whole  Church  at  a  time  when  she  really  needs  to  re- 
learn  some  important  lessons. 


-The  Very  Rev'd  Dr.  Guy  Fitch  Lytle  III,  Dean 


26 


Sewanee/April  1997 


CLASS       NOTES 


'34 


The  Rev.  Canon  George  J. 
Hall,  T'36,  was  honored  re- 
cently with  the  News-Press 
1996  Lifetime  Achievement 
Award  in  Santa  Barbara,  Ca- 
lif.  He  is  retired  after  36 
years  as  rector  of  All  Saints 
By-the-Sea  Episcopal  Church 
in  Montecito,  Calif.,  and  is  a 
former  University  chaplain, 
professor,  and  football 
coach. 


'51 


AUen  L.  Bartlettjr. 

316  South  Tenth  Street 
Philadelphia,  PA  19107 

Dr.  Angus  Graham 
8012  First  Avenue,  W 
Bradenton,  FL  34209 

Allen  Bartlett  is  preparing  for 
the  General  Convention  to 
be  held  in  Philadelphia  in 
July  1997.  Dorsey  Boult  lives 
in  San  Marcos,  Calif.  He 
recently  rafted  the  Colorado 
River  through  the  Grand 
Canyon  for  the  fourth  time, 
and  in  May  he  traveled  to 
China.  Harry  Bull  remains 
with  Smith  Barney  in  Colum- 
bia after  40  years.  Chuck 
Cheatham  is  active  on  the 
county  library  board,  at  the 
Kanuga  Conference  Center, 
and  in  his  parish  church  in 
Western  North  Carolina. 
Bob  Connelly  recently  trav- 
eled to  Italy  with  the  Interna- 
tional Elderhostel  Program. 
Walter  Cox  is  in  Monroe,  Ga. 
In  the  spring  he  visited  family 
in  Geneva  and  in  November 
traveled  to  England.  Charles 
Hall  and  his  wife,  Mary  Lou, 
live  in  Houston,  Texas,  near 
their  four  grandchildren. 
Maurice  Heartfield  is  in 
Bethesda,  Md.  Allan  King 
and  his  wife,  Gloria,  live  in 
Houston,  Texas.  Allan  is 
retired  and  works  with  young 
people  in  start-up  companies 
in  the  oil,  gas,  and  computer 
industries.  Tom  Lamb  lives 
in  Beaumont,  Texas,  where 
he  is  enjoying  his  eight 
grandchildren  and  thinking 
about  retirement.  Tom 
McKeithen  enjoys  golf  and 
grandchildren  in  Jackson- 
ville, Fla.  The  Rev.  Merrill 
Miller  retired  this  year  and 
plans  to  remain  in  the 
Brevard,  N.C.,  area.  He  and 
Chuck  Cheatham  formed  the 


Sewanee  Club  of  W.N. C,  and 
had  55  at  the  first  meeting. 
Jim  Pratt  does  public  rela- 
tions work  for  the  cement 
firm  from  which  he  retired  in 
Birmingham,  Ala.  Cy  Smythe 
is  in  Minnesota  and  consults 
for  his  daughter  who  is  as- 
suming responsibility  for  his 
company.  Retired  Bishop 
Bill  Stough  and  his  wife,  Mar- 
garet, live  in  Birmingham, 
Ala.,  where  he  is  completing 
the  $3  million  fund  drive  for 
Camp  McDowell.  Bayard 
Tynes  retired  from  the  prac- 
tice of  medicine,  took  a  trip 
around  the  world,  and  taught 
at  Pasteur  Institute  last  Sep- 
tember. Paul  Uhrig  is  in 
Ocala,  Fla.  Frank  Wakefield 
continues  to  enjoy  retire- 
ment on  the  Carolina  East 
Coast  in  spite  of  recent  hurri- 
canes. Sandy  West  welcomed 
his  first  granddaughter  re- 
cently. He  remains  involved 
witli  the  Syracuse  Symphony 
and  the  InterReligious  Coun- 
cil. Karl  Woltersdorf  of 
Alpharetta,  Ga.,  co-chairs  a 
capital  campaign  for  his  par- 
ish to  enable  them  to  relo- 
cate and  build  a  new  church. 
He  recently  traveled  to 
Greece  and  Turkey. 


annually  to  outstanding 
professors  selected  by  their 
students. 


'55 


Mr.  Robert  Webb 
P.O.  Box  6108 
Louisville,  KY  40206 

Frank  Bozeman  is  an  attor- 
ney specializing  in  medical 
malpractice  defense  law  in 
Pensacola,  Fla. 


'57 


Dr.  Oliver  Wlieeler  Jervis 
1013  Catalpa  Lane 
Naperville,  IL  60540 

Ken  "Skip"  Barrett  is  a  real 
estate  broker  in  Austin, 
Texas. 


'62 


Mr.  William  Landis  Turner 
107  Leslie  Lane 
Hohenwald,  TN  38462-1100 

Harry  Mullikin  has  taught 
mathematics  at  Pomona 
College  for  28  years.  Last 
May  he  was  awarded  the  Wig 
Distinguished  Teaching 
Award  for  the  fifth  time. 
The  award  is  Pomona's  most 
prestigious  and  is  given 


'63 


Phil  White,  who  has  taught 
at  St.  Andrew's-Sewanee 
School  since  1981,  and  his 
wife,  Jerry,  also  a  teacher  at 
SAS,  received  the  Hubert 
Smothers  Award  for  Excel- 
lence in  Teaching  in  Octo- 
ber 1996.  The  award,  pre- 
sented by  the  Tennessee 
Association  of  Independent 
Schools,  is  given  to  teachers 
who  have  demonstrated 
excellence  and  deep  com- 
mitment to  their  profession. 
This  is  the  first  time  the 
award  has  been  presented  to 
a  husband  and  wife  team. 


'65 


Mr.  Douglas  Milne 
4595  Lexington  Avenue,  #100 
Jacksonville,  FL  32210-2058 

Charles  Wallis  Ohl  Jr.  was 

elected  Bishop  Coadjutor  of 
the  Diocese  of  Northwest 
Texas  on  Feb.  1,  1997.  His 
consecration  will  be  June  28 
in  Lubbock,  Texas.  He  is 
rector  of  St.  Michael  the 
Archangel  in  Colorado 
Springs,  Colo. 


'66 


Mr.  John  Day  Peakejr. 
First  Alabama  Bank 
P.  O.  Drawer  2527 
Mobile,  AL  36622 

John  Capers  III  has  been 
named  publisher  of  the 
Trade  &  Transport  Group 
for  K-l  1 1  Directory  Corp.  in 
Hightstown,  N.J.,  a  leading 
publisher  of  transportation 
information  geared  toward 
industry  executives. 


'67 


Cdr.  Albert  S.  Polk  HI 
2101  Harbor  Drive 
Annapolis,  Md  21401 

Peter  DeSaix  is  director  of 
the  computing  systems 
support  group  at  the  Col- 
laborative Studies  Coordinat- 
ing Center  in  the  biostatis- 
tics  department  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  North  Carolina  at 
Chapel  Hill.  He  and  his 
wife,  Jean,  have  twin  daugh- 
ters, Anna  and  Amy  (C'99). 


Life  in  the  Land 
of  the  Seminoles 

Talbot  "Sandy"  D'Alem- 
berte,  C'55,  finds  the  variety 
of  work  as  president  of 
Florida  State  University  sur- 
prising. He  readily  admits 
that  his  job,  like  any  univer- 
sity president's,  includes  a 
fair  amount  of  fund-raising 
and  contact  with  constituent 

groups.  But  as  president  of  a  major  research  institution, 
he  also  spends  much  of  his  time  dealing  with  the 
Florida  legislature  and  "working  in  the  intersection 
between  science  and  government"  by  talking  with  con- 
gressmen and  agencies  which  fund  research  like  the 
National  Science  Foundation,  the  Department  of  En- 
ergy, and  the  Department  of  Defense.  However,  it  is  the 
time  he  spends  with  students,  such  as  the  filmmakers  at 
FSU's  film  conservatory,  which  he  calls  "some  of  the 
most  enjoyable." 

Since  D'AJemberte  was  installed  as  president  of  FSU 
in  December  1994,  he  has  had  an  important  impact  on 
the  variety  of  experiences  available  to  FSU's  students. 
One  project  includes  the  renovation  of  historic  dormi- 
tories for  students  who  want  the  challenge  of  the  small 
community  of  learning  which  these  dorms  will  create. 
Another  project  provides  a  means  for  students  to  quan- 
tify on  their  transcripts  the  amount  of  community  ser- 
vice which  they  give  during  their  college  careers. 

The  idea  for  certifying  students'  community  service 
hours  grew  out  of  a  similar  program  D'AJemberte  put 
before  the  Florida  court  regarding  legal  pro  bono 
work.  He  proposed  that  lawyers  in  Florida  should  not 
be  required  to  do  pro  bono  work,  but  they  should  re- 
port whether  or  not  they  do  it. 

He  explains  that  pro  bono  work  is  part  of  the  tradi- 
tion of  American  lawyers,  as  well  as  another  way  to  con- 
nect lawyers  to  their  communities.  D'Alemberte  has 
pled  numerous  pro  bono  cases,  including  two  which  he 
argued  before  the  United  States  Supreme  Court. 

Visiting  with  pro  bono  programs  across  the  country 
was  important  to  D'Alemberte  during  his  tenure  as 
president  of  the  American  Bar  Association  (1991-92). 
His  earlier  involvement  with  the  ABA  as  chair  of  their 
law  school  accreditation  committee  was  what  originally 
brought  him  in  contact  with  Florida  State  LTniversity 
which  offered  him  a  position  as  law  school  dean  in 
1984.  He  held  the  administrative  and  teaching  position 
for  five  years  before  returning  to  private  practice.  After 
he  leaves  the  president's  office  D'Alemberte  does  not 
expect  he  will  return  to  private  practice;  rather  he 
wants  to  argue  cases  on  a  pro  bono  basis. 

"Attorneys  often  belong  to  civic  clubs,  but  they  re- 
ally ought  to  worry  whether  poor  people  have  access  to 
courts  and  the  legal  system,"  he  says.  "In  this  country  we 
do  not  begin  to  support  legal  services  to  the  poor  and 
it's  very  important  for  lawyers  to  fill  in." 

— Jennie  Sutton,  C'97 


The  University  of  the  South 


27 


CLASS       NOTES 


The  Greek  Question 

BY   JIM     BRATTON,     C'52 
President  of  the  Associated  Alumni 

It  isn't  news  when  a  liberal  arts  institution  declares 
that  it  is  concerned  about  fraternities  and  sororities  on 
its  campus. 

But  it  is  news  when  that  concern  takes  the  form  of  a 
broad  and  intensive  study  of  the  fraternity/sorority  sys- 
tem to  find  solutions  to  perceived  problems  with  the  goal  of  returning  the  Greek 
bodies  to  a  healthy,  thriving  condition,  forming  a  group  of  organizations  contrib- 
uting meaningfully  and  constructively  to  the  life  of  the  institution. 

At  a  time  in  this  country's  history  when  many  liberal  arts  colleges  have,  for  a 
number  of  years,  been  doing  all  they  can  to  shut  down  their  fraternities  and  so- 
rorities, Sewanee,  once  again,  is  exhibiting  its  unique  sense  of  mission  by  turning 
its  attention  to  strengthening  its  fraternities  and  sororities  to  help  them  in  achiev- 
ing their  missions. 

Strictly  speaking,  addressing  Greek  issues  on  the  Domain  may  not  be  the  direct 
concern  of  the  Associated  Alumni  as  an  association.  However,  it  is  the  direct  con- 
cern of  the  alumni  of  the  University  who  happen  to  be  also  alumni  of  the  various 
fraternities  and  sororities — a  category  that  probably  encompasses  more  than  half 
of  our  number.  And  all  of  us  as  University  alumni  need  to  be  concerned  for  these 
institutions,  and  the  traditions  associated  with  them,  that  form  such  a  significant 
part  of  the  matrix  of  this  singular  University. 

As  frequently  seems  to  be  the  case  in  the  evolution  of  most  life-forms  on  the 
Mountain,  the  growth  of  the  Greek  system  at  Sewanee  over  the  years  has  taken  a 
different  turn  from  the  direction  followed  by  most  other  liberal  arts  institutions, 
with  generally  positive  results.  At  Sewanee,  the  academy  and  the  social  organiza- 
tions do  not  regard  each  other  as  enemies.  To  the  extent  some  difficulties  are  ex- 
perienced, they  are  not  viewed  as  intractable  or  as  an  excuse  for  a  Draconian  re- 
sponse. 

So  far  as  memory  and  recorded  history  enlighten  us,  the  University  has  relied 
heavily,  if  not  exclusively,  upon  the  Greek  organizations  to  shoulder  a  major  part 
of  the  social  life  of  the  University. 

While  that  particular  function  has  remained  largely  unchanged  throughout  the 
years,  the  world  in  which  the  system  operates  has  undergone  changes  that  can  be 
fairly  described  as  revolutionary. 

Cultural  and  societal  demands  and  expectations,  reflected  conspicuously  in 
our  legal  norms  and  elsewhere,  seem  to  have  conspired  to  put  competing,  conflict- 
ing, and  sometimes  seemingly  irreconcilable  demands  on  the  Greek  organiza- 
tions, their  way  of  life,  and  their  relationship  to  the  University. 

By  no  means  is  each  organization  at  Sewanee  confronted  with  the  same  set  of 
problems,  but  there  are  certain  over-arching  concerns  that  are  common  to  all  such 
bodies,  both  at  Sewanee  and  throughout  higher  education  generally.  Unlike  many 
of  it  fellows,  Sewanee  has  not  responded  by  throwing  out  the  baby  with  the  bath- 
water, but  has  approached  the  situation  as  an  opportunity  for  constructive  engage- 
ment in  which  all  affected  constituencies  will  contribute  to  the  solution,  and  the 
strengthening  of  the  entire  University. 

The  University's  plans  to  help  the  Greek  organizations  prepare  for  the  chal- 
lenges facing  them  in  the  years  ahead  have  yet  to  shake  out  finally,  but  it  is  a  cer- 
tainty that  the  alumni  members  of  the  various  organizations  are  going  to  be  asked 
to  assume  a  greater  role  in  all  aspects  of  the  life  of  our  fraternities  and  sororities. 
When  the  call  comes,  please  respond. 
Yea,  Sewanee 's  right! 


Harry  Noyes  lives  in  San 
Antonio,  Texas,  where  he 
has  been  taking  ultralight 
flying  lessons,  is  a  docent  at 
the  San  Antonio  Zoo,  and  is 
a  volunteer  at  Wildlife 
Rescue  and  Rehabilitation  of 
San  Antonio.  Tom  Price 
and  his  family  recently 
moved  to  Kingsport,  Tenn., 
where  Tom  is  a  pediatrician. 
Duvy  Spruill  practices  law  in 
Columbia,  S.C.,  and  is  a 
member  of  Sewanee's  Board 
of  Trustees.  His  son.  Robbie 
(C'97),  is  on  Sewanee's 
conference-winning  swim 
team  and  another  daughter, 
Elizabeth  (C2000),  entered 
Sewanee  this  fall.  Bob 
Stevenson  married  Mindy 
Bills  on  Oct.  27,  1996,  whom 
he  met  over  the  Internet. 
Bob  owns  and  operates  Pro- 
cess Consulting  and  Train- 
ing, a  management  and  or- 
ganization development  com- 
pany in  Maryland.  Steve 
Sundby  recently  moved  to 
Hixson,  Tenn.  P.R.  Walter, 
who  is  at  Linden  Hill  School 
in  Northfield,  Mass.,  recently 
received  the  Joe  Long  Award 
given  by  the  Endowment  for 
Children  in  Crisis  to  an  indi- 
vidual who  has  demonstra- 
ted a  commitment  to  helping 
young  people  through  diffi- 
cult times.  Rod  Webb  is  a 
radiologist  in  Humbolt, 
Tenn. 


umentary  films  on  architec- 
ture, and  a  frequent  nation- 
al spokesperson  for  the  ar- 
chitecture profession. 


'68 


Mr.  Thomas  S.  Rue 
1 24  Ryan  Alien  ite 
Mobile,  AL  36607 
Bob  Wyatt  is  a  professor  of 
journalism  and  director  of 
communication  research  at 
Middle  Tennessee  State 
University  in  Murfreesboro. 
Recently  he  was  elected  to 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
Seabury- Western  Theologi- 
cal Seminary  in  Evanston,  II. 


'69 


Mr.  Dennis  M.  Hall 

2919  Mornington  Drive,  NW 

Atlanta,  GA  30327 

Robert  Ivy  Jr.  was  appointed 
editor  in  chief  of  Architectural 
Record  in  November  1996. 
He  is  an  accomplished  jour- 
nalist, author  of  the  award- 
winning  book  Fay  Jones,  writ- 
er and  co-producer  of  doc- 


'71 


Mr.  Herndon  Inge 

2153  Ashland  Place  Avenue 

Mobile,  AL  36607 

Warner  Ballard  is  director  of 
development  for  Vanderbilt 
University's  School  of  Arts 
and  Sciences  in  Nashville. 


'73 


Robert  Chapman  III,  of 

Spartanburg,  S.C.,  was  elec- 
ted trustee  of  the  Spartan- 
burg County  Foundation  in 
[anuarv  1997.   Craig  Scott 
opened  a  genealogical  and 
historical  bookstore  on  the 
Internet  called  Willow  Bend 
Books.  Craig  lives  in  Lovetts- 
ville,  Va.  Jimmy  Taylor  re- 
cently was  named  senior  re- 
search associate  at  Eastman 
Chemical  Company  in  Kings- 
port,  Tenn. 


'74 


Mr.  Martin  Tilsonjr. 
Kilpatrick  &  Cody 
Suile  2S00, 
1100  Peach-tree  St. 

Adnata.  GA   30309 

Hank  and  Meredith  Preston 
Eddy  announce  the  birth  of 
their  first  child,  Zane 
Preston  Eddy,  born  Nov.  1 1 , 
1996,  in  Paducah,  Ky. 
Meredith  is  the  author  of 
Kentucky.  Dining  by  the  Lakes, 
a  regional  best-selling  cook- 
book and  travel  guide  to  the 
Kentucky  lakes  region. 


'75 


Mr.  Robert  T.  Coleman  111 
The  Liberty  Corporation 
P.  0.  Box  789 
Greenville,  SC  29615 

Edward  Goehe  assumed  a 
new  position  as  deputy  com- 
mander of  the  552nd  Opera- 
tions Group  at  Tinker  Air 
Force  Base,  Okla.,  where  he 
oversees  worldwide  opera- 
tions and  employment  of  the 
E-3  Airborne  Warning  and 
Control  System.   He  also  flies 
as  a  Mission  Crew  Comman- 
der on  the  E-3.  Tom  Whit- 
aker  Jr.  and  his  wife,  Chris, 
are  pleased  to  announce  the 
birth  of  their  son,  Thomas 


28 


Sewanee/April  1997 


CLASS       NOTES 


Powell  Whitaker  III,  born 
Oct.  29,  1996.  Tom  is  an 
attorney  in  Bradenton,  Fla. 


'80 


'81 


76 


Mr.  Richard  Dew 
4325  Ball  Camp  Pike 

Knoxville,  77V  37921 

Michael  Cline  moved  from 
Georgia  to  Louisville,  Ky. 
Philip  Earhart  recently 
joined  the  Board  of  Directors 
of  the  Louisiana  Endowment 
for  the  Humanities.  He  is 
president  of  Bank  One  in 
Lake  Charles.  Richard  Sim- 
mons III  is  chairman  and 
CEO  of  Hilb,  Rogal  and 
Hamilton  insurance  agency 
in  Birmingham,  Ala. 


77 


Ms.  Nora  Frances  McRae 
1515  North  State  Street 
Jackson,  MS  39202 

Jim  Grater  is  a  guest  com- 
poser at  the  University  of 
Rio  de  Janeiro  in  Brazil. 


"78 


Mr.  R.  Phillip  Carpenter 
1465  Northlake  Drive 
Jackson,  MS  39211-2138 

Tom  Dupree  Jr.  and  his  wife, 
Elizabeth  Host,  had  a  son, 
Thomas  Clark  Dupree,  on 
Oct.  22,  1996.  Sallie  Roper 
Moseley  and  her  husband, 
Jim,  announce  the  birth  of 
their  daughter,  Isabelle  Hart- 
field  Moseley,  on  Oct.  23,  1996. 
Susan  Maria  Wilkes  is  a  cer- 
tified quality  engineer  work- 
ing for  Boeing  Commercial 
Airplane  Group.  She  and 
her  two  children  live  in  the 
Seattle,  Wash.,  area. 


'79 


Ms.  Rebecca  Sims 

Box  9699,  Highway  158W 

Ambrose,  GA  31512 

Lisa  Trimble  Actor  recently 
was  appointed  major  gifts 
officer  for  Westminster 
College  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah.  Clark  Hanger  is 
president  of  Hanger  Avia- 
tion, Inc.,  in  Charleston, 
S.C.  He  and  his  wife,  Monti 
Mengedoht  Hanger  (C'80), 
have  four  children. 


Ms.  Suzanne  L.  DeWalt 
1066  Old  Gate  Road 
Pittsburgh,  PA   15235 

Scott  Anderson,  his  wife, 
Laura,  and  their  two  chil- 
dren live  in  Fort  Worth, 
Texas.  Peggy  Barr,  Chris 
Stuart,  and  their  two  chil- 
dren moved  to  San  Diego, 
Calif.  Peggy  works  at  Scripps 
Research  Institute  and  Chris 
is  employed  at  the  University 
of  California  at  San  Diego's 
Center  for  Research  in 
Computing  and  the  Arts. 
Jim  Clausen  was  promoted 
recently  to  Commander  in 
the  Naval  Reserves.  In 
October  he  ran  the  Army  10- 
miler  in  1-1/2  hours.  Rick 
Harper  and  his  wife,  Becki, 
had  twin  boys  on  May  12, 
1996.  They  live  in  Oneida, 
Tenn.  Nan  Fullerton  Kegley 
and  her  husband,  Andy 
(C'81),  had  their  third  child 
on  Sept.  27,  1996.  Andrew 
Reed  Kegley  joins  Calder 
who  is  nine  and  Grace  who 
is  four.  Allison  Sundberg 
Lane  and  her  husband, 
John,  have  a  daughter, 
Elizabeth  Chosen  Lane, 
born  June  30,  1996.  George 
Love  lives  in  Phoenix,  Ariz., 
where  he  writes  computer 
applications  for  a  medical 
clinic  software  developer. 
Michael  Marchetti  and  his 
wife,  Teresa,  have  a  daugh- 
ter, Madeline  Louise 
Marchetti,  born  July  29, 

1996.  Doug  McConnell 
joined  the  forestry  faculty  at 
Mississippi  State  on  Jan.  1, 

1997.  Nona  Peebles  was 
promoted  to  associate  part- 
ner at  Andersen  Consulting, 
a  global  management  and 
technology  consulting 
organization  based  in  Chi- 
cago, 111.  Hugh  Stephenson 
joined  the  Atlanta  office  of 
Paine  Webber  as  senior  vice 
president  for  investments. 
Emily  Fuhrer  Swan  and  her 
husband,  Ben,  live  in  Maine 
where  they  run  a  boys' 
camp.  Charles  Wingard  and 
his  wife,  Kathy,  live  in 
Ipswich,  Mass.,  where  he  is 
pastor  of  First  Presbyterian 
Church  North  Shore. 


Mr.  Brent  T.  Minor 
2910  Sycamore  Street 
Alexandria,  VA  22305 

Joseph  Harpole  Jr.  is  a  staff 
radiologist  at  Bei  land  Radi- 
ology Associates  in  Mt. 
Vernon,  111.   He  and  his  wife, 
Donna,  have  two  children. 


'83 


Mr.  Stewart  A.  W.  Low 
215  Homer  Avenue 
Vorhees,  NJ  08043 

Cynthia  Hinrichs  married  H. 
Vince  Clanton  on  Jan.  11, 
1997.  They  live  in  Atlanta, 
Ga.  Lisa  Stiles  Lacata  has 
been  promoted  to  president 
of  the  chewing  tobacco 
division  of  Swedish  Match 
North  America,  Inc.,  making 
her  one  of  the  few  female 
tobacco  executives  in  the 
nation.  Nicholas  Hatch 
Pendleton  Jr.  is  a  manage- 
ment review  specialist  with 
the  State  of  Florida  Depart- 
ment of  Economic  Self 
Sufficiency  Services  in 
Tallahassee.  Mildred  Gray 
Tanner  began  a  new  job  on 
Nov.  1,  1996,  as  environmen- 
tal health  educator  with  the 
Halifax  County  Health 
Department  in  North  Caro- 
lina. 


'84 


Ms.  Anne  Freeh  Bleynat 
109  Westwood  Road 
Asheville,  NC  28804-2242 

Ernest  and  Sherry  Martin 
Brown  recently  moved  back 
to  San  Antonio,  Texas,  after 
four  years  in  Rhode  Island. 
Ernest  is  vice  president  for 
the  investment  properties 
division  of  Grubb  &  Ellis, 
and  Sherry  is  a  consultant 
for  American  Express.  They 
have  three  children.  Marga- 
ret McGinty  Cureton  and 
her  husband,  Steve,  live  in 
Pickens,  S.C,  where  they  are 
renovating  an  old  farm- 
house and  Margaret  is 
teaching  horseback  riding 
and  competing  with  her  own 
horses.  Dee  Dixon 
Rihtarchik  is  an  in-house 
real  estate  attorney  for 
Moovies,  Inc.,  a  publicly 
traded  video  company  in 
Greenville,  S.C.  Teresa 


Important  Alumni  Dates 

Commencement 

May  11 

Sewanee  Summer  Seminar 
June  22-28 

Sewanee  Music  Festival 

June  29-August  3 

Sewanee  Young  Writers'  Conference 

June  29-July  13 

Sewanee  Writers'  Conference 

July  15-27 

Sewanee  Summer  Seminar,  Session  2 

July  6-12 


Owen  Schaeckenbach  and 

her  husband,  Andrew,  live  in 
San  Antonio,  Texas.  Dan 
Tallmadge  and  his  wife, 
Margaret,  had  a  son,  Dou- 
glas Harrison  Tallmadge,  on 
May  17,  1996. 


Ms.  Laurie  Janett  Rogers 
7721  Hollins  Road 
Richmond,  VA  23229-6641 

Shap  and  Beth  Garcia  Boyd 

had  a  son,  Augustus 
Shapleigh  Boyd  V,  on  Jan. 
25,  1997.   Quint  joins  sisters 
ELee  and  Ashleigh  in 
Sewanee.  Bryan  Tinkle 
moved  to  Augusta,  Ga.,  from 
Oliver  Springs,  Tenn. 


'86 


Ms.  Read  van  de  Water 
4701  29th  Place,  N.W. 
Washington,  DC  20008 

Frank  Bozeman  III  and  his 

wife,  Dawn,  had  a  son, 
William  Evans  Bozeman,  on 
Oct.  23,  1996.  Frank  is  an 
attorney  specializing  in 
workers'  compensation 
litigation  in  Pensacola,  Fla. 
Bryan  Buchanan  has  been 
selected  to  be  the  flight  sur- 
geon for  the  U.S.  Navy's 
flight  demonstration  squad- 
ron, the  Blue  Angels.   He 
started  the  job  in  January 


The  University  of  the  South 


29 


CLASS       NOTES 


Tor  five  short  summer 
weeks,  the  Mountain 
becomes  this  massive 
concert  hall..." 


Over  30  orchestra  and  chamber  music  concerts.  Special  musical 
events.  Four-day  Mini-Fest  of  nine  different  performances.  Inter- 
national faculty-artists  joined  each  week  by  noted  guest  conduc- 
tors including:  Kenneth  Kiesler,  University  of  Michigan;  James 
Paul,  Louisiana  Symphony  Orchestra;  Eric  Lederhandler,  Brussels, 
Belgium;  Glen  Cortese,  Manhattan  School  of  Music;  and  Jonathan 
Shames,  Seattle  Youth  Orchestra.  Now  in  its  4lst  season,  the 
Sewanee  Music  Festival  still  brings  the  world's  finest  music  to  the 
Mountain!  Season  tickets  and  group  sales  available. 

For  more  information, 

contact:  _  _ 

wmfm'  Direct°r  Music  Festival 

or  fax  615-598-1706      Julie  29-AllgUSt  3, 1997 

735  University  Avenue  •  Sewanee,  Tennessee  37383-1000 


SEWANEE 


The 
Clock  is 


Ticking 


The  deadline  for  participating  in  the 
Sewanee  Annual  Fund  is  June  30.  We 
need  your  help  to  increase  the  number  of 
alumni  who  support  Sewanee  by  making 
a  gift  to  the  annual  fund.  Your  gift  now 
will  ensure  that  the  University  of  the 
South  can  continue  to  transform  the  lives 
of  students  on  the  Mountain.  Send  your 
contribution  today  to:  The  University  of 
the  South,  Office  of  Annual  Giving,  735 
University  Avenue,  Sewanee,  TN 
37383-1000.  If  you  prefer, 
you  can  charge  your  gift  on 
your  credit  card  by  cal- 
ling 1-800-367-1179. 
Send  your  gift  right 
away. ..don't  wait! 

The  Sewanee 
Annual  Fund 


and  recently  completed  the 
winter  training  period  in  El 
Centro,  Calif.   He's  based 
in  Pensacola,  Fla.  Alison 
Riopel  Cayton  and  her 
husband,  Verne,  had  a 
daughter,  Katherine  Frances 
Cayton,  on  May  13,  1996. 
Hollis  and  Anne  Mengedoht 
Fitch  had  a  son,  Oliver 
Lenox  Fitch,  on  July  18, 
1996.  John  Gatewood  Ham 
lives  in  Cholburi,  Thailand. 


'87 


Mr.  Fox  Helms  Johnston  Jr. 

325  Park  Road 

Lookout  Mountain,  TN  37350 

Stephen  Alvarez  recently 
displayed  his  photographic 
works  from  Northern  Peru 
at  Stirling's  Coffeehouse  in 
Sewanee.  Stephen  is  an 
internationally  known  maga- 
zine photographer  and  has 
had  works  appearing  in  such 
magazines  as  National  Geo- 
graphic, Life,  Time,  and 
Smithsonian.  Virginia 
Nichols  Culbreath  and  her 
husband  welcomed  their 
second  daughter,  Amelia 
Persons  Culbreath,  on  Dec. 
26,1996.  Paul  Nicks  was 
named  an  equity  principal  of 
Hill  Boren  PC,  the  largest 
personal  injury  law  firm  in 
Tennessee.  Amy  Pennington 
married  Todd  Max  Boyce  on 
June  22,  1996.  Amy  is  an 
information  retrieval  special- 
ist, consultant,  and  pub- 
lished author  in  Michigan, 
and  recently  contributed  a 
chapter  in  a  new  reference 
book  titled  Encyclopedia  of 
Global  Industries.  John  Scott 
lives  in  Alpharetta,  Ga.,  and 
is  a  senior  consultant  for 
Technology  Solutions  Co. 
Steve  Thomason  recently 
became  medical  director  for 
an  85-physician  group  in 
Arkansas,  and  continues  to 
practice  medicine  part-lime. 


'88 


Ms.  Lesley  Grant 

459  N.  Gardner  Street 

Los  Angeles,  CA   90036-5708 

Bill  Bozeman  is  on  the 

faculty  of  the  University  of 
Florida  Medical  School 
training  emergency  resi- 
dents and  doing  research  at 
Orange  Park  Hospital  in 
Jacksonville,  Fla.   Sallie 
Smither  Crotty  and  her 


husband,  Mark,  have  a 
daughter,  Kate  Gaston 
Crotty,  born  Jan.  24,  1997. 
Jonathan  Fulton  relocated  to 
Coconut  Grove,  Fla.,  from 
Memphis,  Tenn.  Buck 
Gorrell  is  a  horticulture 
student  at  the  University  of 
Tennessee  and  spent  this 
past  summer  working  for 
noted  English  plantswoman 
and  author  Rosemary  Verey 
in  her  Gloucestershire 
garden.  His  wife,  Iska 
Hoole-Gorrell  (C'92),  joined 
him  and  together  they 
toured  England  and  Paris. 
Suzanne  Safford  recently 
moved  to  Virginia  Beach, 
Va.,  from  Cedar  Falls,  Idaho. 
Sheila  Belew  Webb  and  her 
husband,  John,  live  in  Ar- 
lington, Va.,  where  Sheila  is 
employed  by  the  U.S.  De- 
partment of  State. 


'89 


Mr.  John  Patten  Guerryjr. 
1 75  Kenley  Court 
Marietta,  GA  30068 

Ms.  Joy  Archer  Yeager 
5800  Woodway  #405 
Houston,  TX  77057-15 II 

Rob  Cook  recently  relocated 
to  Richmond,  Va.,  where  he 
is  working  as  a  network 
engineer  for  IPC  Technolo- 
gies. Rob  Wood  was  or- 
dained to  the  Episcopal 
priesthood  by  the  Rt.  Rev. 
Frank  K.  Allan,  T'59,  T'70, 
H'88,  Bishop  of  Atlanta,  and 
assisted  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Onell 
Soto,  T'64,  Assistant  Bishop 
of  Atlanta,  on  Dec.  14,  1996, 
at  the  Cathedral  of  St.  Philip 
in  Atlanta,  Ga.  Rob  is  associ- 
ate rector  of  Grace-Calvary 
Church  in  Clarkesville,  and 
he  and  his  wife,  Sara,  live  in 
Demorest. 


'90 


30 


Ms.  Katy  Morrissey 

149  Central  Avenue,  Apt.  13 

Ridge  field  Park,  NJ  07660 

Valerie  McCord  married 
Robert  Baldwin  on  Jan.  25, 
1997,  in  Columbus,  Ohio. 
Caroline  Merrill  started  a 
catering  company,  At  Your 
Table,  in  January  1996.  She 
also  is  a  chef  for  the  Atlanta 
Symphony.   Kiyoshi  Oka 
moved  from  Tokyo  to  Hun- 
tington Beach,  Calif.  Elka 
Olsen  moved  to  Dallas, 

SEWANEE/APRIL    1997 


CLASS        NOTES 


Texas,  where  she  is  a  copy- 
writer for  DDB  Needham 
Worldwide-The  Dal  Group. 
She  writes  television,  radio, 
and  print  for  accounts  such 
as  Pepsi,  Pizza  Hut,  and 
Fri  to-Lay.   Neill  and  Kathy 
Rogers  Touchstone  live  in 
Austin,  Texas,  where  Neill  is 
working  on  an  MBA  at  the 
University  of  Texas.  Kathy 
recently  completed  an  MBA 
at  Emory  University  in 
Atlanta,  Ga. 


'92 


'94 


'91 


Ms.  Marsey  L.  Waller 
536  E.  Luray  Avenue 
Alexandria,  VA  22301 

Kelley  Jones  Black  is  assis- 
tant director  of  development 
and  tennis  coach  at  Texas 
Military  Institute,  in  addition 
to  pursuing  a  master's  de- 
gree in  biology  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Texas  at  San  Anto- 
nio. Mark  Cain  is  the  direc- 
tor of  sales/marketing  for 
Microtrade,  the  Swiss  dis- 
tributorship for  Macintosh 
clones,  in  Bern,  Switzerland. 
Marilee  Douthat  Cleland 
received  her  MBA  from 
Emory  University  in  Atlanta, 
and  currently  works  for  MCI 
as  a  financial  analyst  in  the 
emerging  business  depart- 
ment. Jason  Ehrlinspiel 
married  Lynne  Louise 
Alexander  on  June  29,  1996, 
in  Long  Beach,  Miss.  Jason 
is  an  attorney  in  Jackson. 
Amy  Robertson  Ehrman  and 
her  husband,  Tim,  had  a 
daughter,  Hannah  Marie 
Ehrman,  on  Oct.  21,  1996. 
Bryant  Mackey  married 
Tracey  Sheffield  on  Oct.  5, 
1996,  in  Atlanta.  Bryant  was 
promoted  recently  to  pro- 
ducer for  CNN  International 
Sports.  Jon  Meacham  mar- 
ried Keith  Smythe  in  Decem- 
ber 1996.  Jon  is  an  editor 
for  Newsweek  magazine  in 
New  York.  Edgar  Randolph 
received  a  master  of  divinity 
from  Candler  School  of 
Theology  at  Emory  Llniver- 
sity  in  May  1996.  He  is 
studying  patristics  at  Emory 
and  pursuing  ordination  in 
the  Diocese  of  Atlanta. 


Ms.  Kathryn  McDonald 

2  700  A  rlington  Aven  ue,  S#  1 8 

Birmingham,  AL  35205 

Jack  Chambers  is  a  fulfill- 
ment specialist  for  Vander- 
bilt  University  Medical 
Center  Marketing  &  Com- 
munications.  Katharine 
Fischer  Harris  lives  in  Mont- 
gomery, Ala.,  and  works  for 
Horizon  Pharmaceuticals. 
Matt  McConnell  is  an  attor- 
ney in  Metairie,  La.  Karsten 
Robbins  lives  in  Fiance  and 
works  in  Geneva,  Switzer- 
land, as  a  graphic  designer 
for  the  International  Organi- 
zation for  Migration. 


'93 


Ms.  Rebecca  Miller 
4203  Town  Walk  Drive 
Hamden,  CT  06518 

Brad  Drell  and  his  wile, 
Carrie  Hamrick  Drell  (C'95), 
live  in  Alexandria,  La., 
where  Brad  is  a  law  clerk  for 
the  Federal  Bankruptcy 
Court.  Tito  Dutta- 
Chowdhury  is  employed 
with  Applied  Materials  in 
Santa  Clara,  Calif.  He  and 
his  wife,  Debjani,  live  in 
Belmont.  Stacy Juckett 
married  Joseph  Giampapa 
on  Dec.  28,  1996.  She  is 
director  of  Lawrence 
Steigrad  Fine  Arts  in  New 
York  City.   Rebecca  Miller  is 
a  producer  with  an  ABC 
affiliate  in  New  Haven- 
Hartford,  Conn.  Jeff 
Muench  is  a  graduate  stu- 
dent in  Brussels,  Belgium, 
through  a  Rotary  ambassa- 
dorial scholarship.   Greg 
and  Susanna  Rogers  Smith 
live  in  Tallahassee,  Fla., 
where  Susanna  works  as  a 
library  systems  clerk  in 
Strozier  Library  at  Florida 
State  University  and  serves  as 
comptroller  for  the  Chapel 
of  the  Resurrection,  and 
Greg  is  a  graduate  teaching 
assistant  in  the  philosophy 
department  and  is  pursuing 
his  Ph.D.  in  philosophy  at 
FSU.  Robin  Snyder  is  a  first 
year  law  student  at  Lewis  & 
Clark  College  in  Oregon. 


Ms.  Dawn  White 

Assistant  Director  of  Annual 

Giving 

735  University  Avenue 

Sewanee,  TN  37383-1000 

Shannon  Adkins  rei  entlv 
returned  from  laboratory 
training  in  Germany.   She  is 
a  medical  technologist  in 
Knoxville,  Tenn.   Shawn 
Alves  is  a  law  student  at  the 
University  of  Alabama.  Leah 
Amerling  is  an  ensign  with 
U.S.  Naval  Intelligence  in 
Virginia  Beach,  Va.   Brian 
Barlet  is  a  district  sales 
manager  for  Potomac 
Group-MediFax  in  Orlando, 
Fla.   Emily  Barr  and  Daniel 
Richards  (C95),  were  mar- 
ried at  All  Saints'  Chapel  in 
Sewanee  on  Dec.  28,  1996. 
Kimberly  Baum  is  a  meet- 
ings services  assistant  with 
the  Hinman  Dental  Society 
in  Atlanta,  Ga.  Kristin  Beise 
is  doing  graduate  work  in 
philosophy  of  religion  at  the 
University  of  Chicago.  Ethel 
Bowman  is  pursuing  a 
master's  degree  in  mass 
communication  in  the 
Journalism  College  of  the 
University  of  South  Caro- 
lina.  Ragda  Deeb  is  in 
graduate  school  at  the 
Institute  of  Physical  Therapy 
in  St.  Augustine,  Fla.  Jim 
and  Marilyn  Hulsey  Dixon 
live  in  Birmingham,  Ala., 
where  Marilyn  is  a  shop 
manager  for  Botanical 
Gardens  and  Jim  is  a  branch 
manager  for  Regions  Bank. 
Trey  Dobson  completed  his 
master's  degree  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wyoming  and  now 
lives  in  Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
Lee  Virden  DuBose  and  her 
husband,  Steve  (C'90),  live 
in  Aiken,  S.G,  where  Lee  is 
an  apprentice  sous  chef. 
Elizabeth  Edmunds  is  in 
sales  with  Bush  Homes  of 
East  Africa  in  Mobile,  Ala. 
Debby  McCaughan  Fields 
and  her  husband,  Mike,  live 
in  Fresno,  Calif.,  where 
Debby  is  a  full  lime  graduate- 
student.   Eric  Foster  is  a 
teacher  in  Memphis.   Paige 
Fowler  attends  law  school  at 
the  University  of  South 
Carolina  and  works  in  the 
office  of  the  general  counsel 
at  the  South  Carolina  De- 
partment of  Social  Services. 


Kim  Giles  is  a  marketing 
assistant  with  Sensible  Com- 
munications in  Nashville,  a 
computer  training  firm  that 
works  with  clients  such  as 
NationsBank,  Service  Mer- 
chandise, and  Whirlpool. 
Rachel  Lanier  Gillett  lives  in 
Galveston,  Texas,  and  is  in 
medical  school.  Michael 
Girard  is  a  trainer/consult- 
ant with  Informix  Software. 
He  and  his  wife,  Michell 
McMuIlen  Girard  (C91),  live 
in  Foster  City,  Calif.  Greg 
Greene  married  Tina 
Lindon  in  October  1996. 
He  is  a  contractor's  sales 
representative  in  Florence, 
Ky.   Ellen  Jefferson  is  a 
graduate  student  studying 
elementary  education  at  the 
University  of  Florida  in 
Gainesville.   Carol  Jones  is 
an  assistant  athletics  director 
and  coach  at  Transylvania 
University  in  Lexington,  Ky. 
Clay  Kelley  is  a  senior  ac- 
count executive  in  Char- 
lotte, N.C.   Ryan  Kelley  lives 
in  Charlotte,  N.C,  where  he 
is  president  and  general 
manager  of  RNT,  Inc.   Matt 
Kenney  welcomed  his  sec- 
ond son,  Thrasymachus 
Drozd  Kenney,  on  Nov.  25, 
1996.  He  has  another  son, 
Algernon  Heraclitus  Kenney, 
who  is  two.  Jeri  Lee  is  in 
veterinarian  school  at  the 
University  of  Minnesota  in 
St.  Paul.   Pam  Mason  gradu- 
ated from  Peabody  at 
Vanderbilt  University  with  a 
master's  degree  in  education 
in  May  1996.  She  is  an  early 
childhood  special  education 
teacher  in  Tullahoma,  Tenn. 
Travis  McDonough  is  a  law 
student  at  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity.  Margaret 
Meriwether  is  a  photo  editor 
in  Columbia,  S.G  Anne 
Mittelstaedt  is  a  mental 
health  technician  at  a 
children's  hospital  in  Arkan- 
sas and  is  pursuing  a 
master's  degree  in  special 
education.  Will  Montjoy 
attends  the  University  of 
Mississippi  Law  School  and 
is  managing  editor  of  the 
Mississippi  Law  Journal.  John 
Moore  Jr.  teaches  Spanish  at 
the  undergraduate  level  and 
is  pursuing  a  master's  in 
Spanish  at  Middle  Tennessee 
State  University  in 
Murfreesboro.   Saxton  Moss 


The  University  of  the  Soun 


CLASS       NOTES 


Lauren  Keith,  C'96, 
Bishop  Leo  Frade,  T'77, 
and  Byron  Davis,  C'96, 
outside  the  Buen  Pastor 
Cathedral  in  San  Pedro 
Sula,  Honduras.  Keith,  a 
graduate  of  the  Third 
World  Studies  program, 
has  been  in  Honduras 
working  in  a  home  for 
abused  and  abandoned 
girls.  Bishop  Frade,  a 
School  of  Theology  gradu- 
ate, has  overseen  the 
growth  of  Episcopal  par- 
ishes in  Honduras  from 
seven  in  1979  to  55 
today.  Davis  is  teaching 
earth  science  to  eighth  and 
ninth  graders  at  the  Buen 
Pastor  bilingual  school, 
finding  time  to  practice 
with  a  division  one  soccer 
team  in  San  Pedro  Sula. 
The  three  have  formed  the 
San  Pedro  Sula  Chapter 
of  Sewa  nee  Alu  m  n  i. 


attends  the  University  of 
South  Florida  College  of 
Medicine  in  Tampa.  Eliza- 
beth Justice  Mulloy  and  her 
husband.  Trent  (C'93),  live 
in  Laurel,  Miss.  Elizabeth  is 
division  director  for  the 
March  of  Dimes  Birth  De- 
fects Foundation  in  Merid- 
ian. Nancy  Nettles  is  a 
conservation  restriction 
program  assistant  working  in 
land  conservation  in  the 
Boston  area.  Spencer 
Palmer  is  in  his  second  year 
at  Emory  Medical  School  in 
Atlanta.  Will  Parcell  is 
pursuing  a  master's  degree 
in  geology  at  the  University 
of  Delaware.  Maggie  Rafter 
is  a  graduate  student  in 
geology  at  the  University  of 
Georgia  in  Athens.  Emily 
French  Reilly  and  her  hus- 
band, William,  live  in 
Franklin,  Tenn.,  where 
Emily  works  with  the 
Franklin  Special  School 
District.  She  is  pursuing  a 
master's  degree  in  elemen- 
tary education  at  Vanderbilt- 
Peabody  in  Nashville. 
Steven  Rinck  and  his  wife, 
Claudia,  announce  the  birth 
of  their  first  child,  Diana 
Isabela  Rinck,  on  Dec.  9, 
1996,  in  Winchester,  Tenn. 
Allison  Rizk  is  pursuing  a 
master  of  divinity  degree  at 
Princeton  Theological 
Seminary.  Doug  Rodman  is 
pursuing  a  master's  degree 
in  forestry  at  Duke  Univer- 
sity. Liza  Sutherland  Sippe  is 
a  recruiting  coordinator 
with  NationsBank  in  Char- 
lotte, N.C.  Ada  Travelsted 
Skillern  is  a  high  school 
English  teacher  and  cross 
country  and  track  coach  in 
Bowling  Green,  Ky. 
Catherine  Smith  is  an  invest- 
ment assistant  in  Nashville. 
Anne  Stanley  is  in  medical 
school  in  Memphis.  Eric 


Stevenson  is  a  second  year 
law  student  in  Birmingham, 
Ala.  Laura  Boyer  Talbot  is 
the  concurrent/contract 
enrollment  specialist  at 
South  Texas  Community 
College  and  works  part-time 
as  a  youth  and  children's 
minister  in  McAllen,  Texas. 
Holly  Tunnell  is  a  law  stu- 
dent at  the  University  of 
Alabama  in  Tuscaloosa. 
Heather  Bennett 
Wanamaker  and  her  hus- 
band, Nathan  (C'93),  live  in 
Kingston,  R.I.,  where 
Heather  recently  completed 
her  master's  degree  and  is 
working  toward  a  Ph.D.  at 
the  University  of  Rhode 
Island.  Ned  West  is  a  geolo- 
gist and  engineering  techni- 
cian at  Lambert  &  Associates 
in  Durango,  Colo.  In  Octo- 
ber 1996  Dr.  Bran  Potter 
presented  Ned's  research 
work  at  the  Cumberland 
Plateau  Overthrust  Confer- 
ence in  Denver.  Caroline 
Yaun  Wheadey  and  her 
husband,  Parker  (C'93),  live 
in  Arlington,  Va.,  where 
Caroline  is  working  toward  a 
degree  in  nursing  at  Catho- 
lic University.    David  and 
Holly  Kirkgard  Wilbourn 
live  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  where 
Holly  recently  was  promoted 
to  director  of  parent  pro- 
grams and  annual  giving  at 
Woodward  Academy  in 
College  Park.  Jay  Williams  is 
a  marketing  coordinator  in 
Cleveland,  Tenn.  He  is 
working  toward  an  MBA  at 
the  University  of  Tennessee 
at  Chattanooga. 


'95 


Ms.  Anne  McGinn 
21  Trevor  Place 
London  SW7,  UK 

Catherine  Douglas 
Carruthers  has  moved  from 


Towson,  Md.,  to  Birming- 
ham, Ala.  Andrew  "Fletch" 
Fletcher  is  a  teacher  at 
Montgomery  Bell  Academy 
in  Nashville.  Jennifer 
Hammontree  recently  relo- 
cated to  Portland,  Ore., 
where  she  works  as  an  assis- 
tant stage  manager  for  the 
Portland  Opera.  Caroline 
Hardey  moved  to 
Douglasville,  Ga.,  from 
Boston,  Mass.  William 
Haselden  is  a  graduate 
student  at  the  University  of 
South  Carolina  in  hotel, 
restaurant,  and  tourism 
business  administration.  He 
is  also  a  tourism  consultant. 
Clay  Hershey  is  a  legal 
assistant  in  Richmond,  Va. 
David  Padilla  is  a  teacher  at 
St.  Albans  School  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.  Angela  Sitz  is  a 
graduate  student  in  nursing 
at  Vanderbilt  University. 
Dave  Waddell  recently  was 
promoted  to  regional  ac- 
count representative  for 
strategic  accounts  with 
Charles  Schwab  in  San 
Francisco,  Calif.  Laura  Wylie 
is  in  her  second  year  of 
teaching  in  a  bilingual 
school  in  Honduras,  Central 
America. 


'96 


Ms.  Ashley  Neal 
603  Gary  Street 
Augusta,  GA  30904 

Lee  Boyd  Jr.  is  an  appren- 
tice chef  with  Marriott  in 
Sewanee.  Ashley  Brown 
recently  moved  from  Geor- 
gia to  Washington,  D.C. 
Leigh  Ann  Cox  is  an  assis- 
tant/computer operator  for 
Merrill  Lynch.  Byron  Davis 
is  a  missionary  teaching 
English  in  San  Pedro  Sula, 
Honduras,  and  is  a  member 
of  Morathon,  a  pro  soccer 
team.  Kristina  Erlowine 
attends  law  school  at  the 
University  of  Virginia. 
Camille  Gleaton  moved 
from  Kissimmee,  Fla.,  to 
Atlanta,  Ga.  Kathryn  Ingram 
lives  in  Boston,  Mass.,  where 
she  is  editor  of  corporate 
services  with  First  Call,  a 
division  of  Thomson  Finan- 
cial Services.  Lauren  Keith 
lives  in  San  Pedro  Sula, 
Honduras,  where  she  works 
in  the  Nuestras  Pequenas 
Rosas  Home  for  abused  and 


abandoned  girls.  Mercedes 
McDaniel  recently  married 
JeffreyJ.  Clements.  Cathy 
Rafferty  is  a  legislative 
correspondent  to  Congress- 
man Amo  Houghton  in 
Washington,  D.C.  She  is  also 
social  chair  of  the  Sewanee 
Club  of  Washington. 
Brooke  Vaughan  is  a  gradu- 
ate student  at  Vanderbilt 
University  in  Nashville. 

School  of  Theology 
T'48 

The  Very  Rev.  David  B. 

Collins,  dean  emeritus  of  the 
Cathedral  of  St.  Philip  in 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  recently  pub- 
lished his  memoirs,  There  is  a 
Lad  Here.  The  book  includes 
remembrances  of  his  years  as 
an  undergraduate  at 
Sewanee  and  his  13  years  as 
University  chaplain,  in 
addition  to  his  work  at  the 
cathedral  in  Atlanta  that 
became  the  largest  Episco- 
pal congregation  in  the 
United  States. 


T'72 


Mike  Kidda  was  elected  to 

Who's  Who  in  America  for 
1997. 


T'89 


Ken  Roach  and  Carol  Flory 
(T'97)  were  married  Dec.  14, 
1996,  at  All  Saints'  Chapel  in 
Sewanee. 


T'93 


Robert  Martin  Jr.  has  a  new 

position  as  assistant  to  the 
rector  at  St.  John's  Episcopal 
Church  in  Tampa,  Fla.  The 
Rev.  Dr.  George  Wayne 
Smith  had  his  work,  Admi- 
rable Simplicity:  Principles  for 
Worship  Planning  in  the 
Anglican  Tradition,  published 
by  the  Church  Hymnal 
Corporation  in  1996. 


T'96 


Scott  Fuir  and  his  wife, 
JoAnn,  announce  the  birth 
of  their  son,  Andrew  Patrick 
Fuir,  on  Jan.  12,  1997.  Scott 
was  ordained  to  the  priest- 
hood on  Jan.  18,  1997. 


32 


SEWANEE/APRIL    1997 


IN        MEMORIAM 


The  Rev.  H.  Anton  "Tony" 
Griswold,  C'28,  T'30,  of 
Venice,  Fla.,  died  November 
18,  1996.  A  retired  clergy- 
man, he  served  parishes  and 
chaplaincies  in  New  York 
during  his  ministry.  He  was 
an  associate  professor  at  the 
University  of  the  South,  and 
served  as  acting  registrar 
from  1930-36,  before  enter- 
ing parish  ministry.  Griswold 
was  a  chaplain  in  the  U.S. 
Navy  during  World  War  II, 
served  as  a  supply  priest  for 
the  bishop  of  New  York,  and 
was  a  theatre  owner  and  pro- 
ducer of  summer  stock  pre- 
sentations of  the  Duchess 
Players  in  Fishkill,  NY. 

The  Rev.  Roscoe  Conklin 
Hauser  Jr.,  C'29,  of 

Fayetteville,  N.C.,  died  Janu- 
ary 2,  1997.  He  was  retired  as 
minister  of  St.  John's  Episco- 
pal Church  in  Fayetteville. 
He  also  ministered  in  Texas 
and  Florida.  A  graduate  of 
Virginia  Theological  Semi- 
nar)', he  was  one  of  the  last 
students  ordained  before 
graduation  because  of  a 
shortage  of  parish  priests. 
Hauser  was  the  founding 
minister  of  St.  Thomas  Epis- 
copal Church,  near  Texas 
A&M,  College  Station,  and 
served  as  a  chaplain  in  the 
U.S.  Army  Air  Corps.  Survi- 
vors include  his  wife,  Evelyn 
Garrett  Rhodes  Hauser, 
three  daughters,  and  five 
grandsons. 

Nash  Kerr  Burger  Jr.,  C'30, 

of  Charlottesville,  Va.,  died 
December  19,  1996.  A  writer 
and  retired  New  York  Times 
Book  Review  staffer,  in  1995 
his  memoir.  The  Road  to  West 
43rd  Street,  was  published.  At 
Sewanee  he  was  a  member  of 
Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  and  the 
Order  of  Gownsmen.  He 
also  was  on  the  staff  of  the 
Purple  and  the  Cap  and  Gown. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Marjorie,  three  sons,  and  two 
grandchildren. 

Jackson  Cross,  C'30,  of  Vero 
Beach,  Fla.,  died  December 
29,  1996.  Born  and  raised  in 
Brooklyn,  NY.,  he  was  retired 
as  president  and  owner  of  an 
industrial  acquisitions  and 
machinery  firm  in  Fairfield, 
Conn.  Cross  was  an  English 
and  French  major  at 
Sewanee,  graduating  as  salu- 
tatorian  of  his  class,  and  was 


a  member  of  the  Order  of 
Gownsmen,  Sigma  Epsilon. 
the  German  Club,  Pi  Kappa 
Phi,  and  Sigma  Alpha  Epsi- 
lon. He  was  art  editor  of  the 
Mountain  Goat.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Anne  Meyer 
Cross,  three  daughters,  and 
six  grandchildren. 

Edwin  I.  Hatch,  C'33,  of  At- 
lanta, Ga.,  died  February  4, 
1997.  At  Sewanee  he  was  a 
member  of  Omicron  Delta 
Kappa  and  Blue  Key  honor- 
ary societies,  the  Order  of 
Gownsmen,  the  Scholarship 
Society,  the  "S"  Club,  and 
Alpha  Tau  Omega.  He 
played  varsity  football  and 
basketball.  Later  he  served 
on  the  University's  Boards  of 
Trustees  and  Regents,  and 
was  former  president  of  the 
Associated  Alumni.  In  1982 
he  was  presented  with  the 
first  Distinguished  Alumnus 
Award  given  by  the  Univer- 
sity. He  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Alabama  Law 
School  in  1936,  and  prac- 
ticed law  in  Montgomery 
until  1955.  Hatch  relocated 
to  Birmingham  and  was 
elected  executive  vice  presi- 
dent and  board  member  of 
Alabama  Power,  and  later 
was  named  president  of 
Georgia  Power  Company  in 
Atlanta,  Ga.  In  1966  he  was 
made  chief  executive  officer 
of  Georgia  Power,  a  position 
he  held  until  his  retirement 
in  1978.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Cathedral  of  St.  Philip 
in  Atlanta.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Helen  Hume  Hatch, 
two  daughters,  a  son.  Dr. 
Edwin  I.  Hatch  Jr.,  C'63  ,  a 
brother,  eight  grandchildren, 
including  John  Stillwell 
Malone,  C'97,  and  five  great- 
grandchildren. 

Joe  S.  Mellon  Sr.,  C'33,  of 

Bolton,  Miss.,  died  February 
3,  1997.  He  was  a  retired 
marketing  representative  of 
Gulf  Oil  (later  Chevron  USA, 
Inc.).  At  Sewanee  he  was  a 
member  of  Sigma  Nu  frater- 
nity. Survivors  include  his 
wife,  Edna  Clark  Mellon. 

John  Christian  Eby,  C'35,  of 
Monroe,  La.,  died  October 
22,  1996.  He  was  retired  as 
president  and  owner  of  a 
hardware  and  furniture  retail 
business  in  Monroe.  Survi- 
vors include  his  wife,  June. 


Dr.  Walter  M.  Hart,  C'37,  of 

Florence,  S.( ',..  died  Dec  em- 
ber 6,  1996.  He  was  a  Navy 
veteran  of  World  War  II, 
having  served  as  a  lieutenant 
commander.  He  was  active 
in  St.  John's  Episcopal 
Church  and  in  his  diocese. 
He  was  a  1941  graduate  of 
the  Medical  College  of  South 
Carolina  in  Charleston, 
where  he  was  recipient  of  the 
Ravenal  Award  in  Public 
Health.  A  pediatrician,  he 
was  actively  involved  with  the 
Florence  Crippled  Children's 
Home,  was  a  founding  mem- 
ber of  the  Mental  Health 
Association  in  Florence 
County,  and  served  as  the 
first  chair  of  the  Pee  Dee 
Mental  Health  Center.  He 
was  on  the  federal  commis- 
sion responsible  for  the  cre- 
ation of  the  Head  Start 
Program  and  was  instrumen- 
tal in  its  organization  in 
South  Carolina.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  University's 
Board  of  Trustees,  and  he 
and  his  brother,  Joseph  E. 
Hart  Jr.,  C'34.  gave  the  for- 
estry window  in  All  Saints' 
Chapel  in  memory  of  their 
father.  He  was  preceded  in 
death  by  his  wife,  Jane  Todd 
Hart.  Survivors  include  a 
daughter,  Jane  Hart  Lewis, 
C'77,  two  grandchildren,  a 
sister,  and  his  brother. 

James  M.  Packer,  C'38,  died 
October  19,  1996,  at  his 
home  in  Jackson,  Miss.  A 
retired  radiologist,  he  was  a 
founding  member  of  the 
Radiological  Group  and 
practiced  medicine  in  Jack- 
son for  35  years.  He  served 
as  chief-of-staff  at  the  Missis- 
sippi Baptist  Medical  Center. 
At  Sewanee  Packer  was  a 
proctor  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Honor  Council,  Blue 
Key,  the  Red  Ribbon  Society, 
and  Kappa  Alpha.  He  re- 
ceived his  medical  degree 
from  Tulane  in  1941,  and 
served  in  World  War  II,  re- 
ceiving the  Bronze  Star.  Sur- 
vivors include  his  wife,  Anna 
Ayers  Packer,  two  daughters, 
a  son,  two  grandchildren, 
including  Anna  Sterne,  C'97, 
and  a  sister. 

The  Rev.  M.  William  Asger, 
C'41,  T'45,  of  Birmingham, 
Ala.,  died  January  10,  1997. 
He  was  a  retired  priest  from 
the  Diocese  of  Alabama.  Af- 


ter graduating  from 
Sewanee,  where  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Order  of 
Gownsmen,  the  Purple 
Masque,  Blue  Key,  and  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  fraternity,  he 
served  parishes  in  Chatta- 
nooga, Mississippi,  and  Bir- 
mingham. Survivors  include 
his  wife,  Evelyn. 

John  Boykin  Roberts,  C'42, 

died  December  1,  1996,  at 
his  home  in  Cuernavaca, 
Mexico.  A  native  of  Atlanta, 
he  served  as  a  naval  officer  in 
the  North  Africa  campaign 
and  was  harbormaster  of  the 
Port  of  Palermo,  Italy,  during 
World  War  II.  He  was  a  re- 
tired representative  of  several 
American  companies  in 
Mexico  and  South  America. 
At  Sewanee  he  lettered  in 
football  and  basketball  and 
was  a  member  of  Sigma  Al- 
pha Epsilon  fraternity.   He  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  Vera 
Polizzi  Roberts,  a  daughter, 
two  granddaughters,  and 
three  brothers,  including  E. 
Graham  Roberts,  C'43,  and 
James  K.  Roberts,  C'47. 

William  F.  Quesenberryjr., 
C'43,  died  December  23, 
1996,  at  his  home  in  Virginia 
Beach,  Va.  He  graduated 
magna  cum  laude  from 
Sewanee  with  a  degree  in 
economics.  While  a  student, 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Or- 
der of  Gownsmen,  Blue  Key, 
the  Scholarship  Society,  the 
Debate  Society,  the 
PanHellenic  Council,  and 
was  president  of  Phi  Delta 
Delta.  He  was  also  a  former 
University  trustee.  A  former 
Navy  pilot,  Quesenberry  was 
president  of  Quesenberry 
and  Catlin,  his  family's  food 
brokerage  firm,  for  39  years 
before  retiring.  He  and  his 
wife  spent  the  next  ten  years 
on  safaris  to  Africa,  journeys 
to  Asia,  expeditions  to  Russia, 
road  trips  throughout  the 
United  States,  and  deep-sea 
excursions  exploring  the  five 
oceans.  He  also  was  active  in 
community  organizations  as 
a  fund-raiser  and  leader. 
Survivors  include  his  wife, 
Mary  Belle  Gardner,  a  son, 
William  F.  Quesenberry  III, 
C'71,  a  daughter,  and  a 
grandson. 


The  University  of  the  South 


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IN       MEMORIAM 


John  Robert  Walker,  A'39, 
C'43,  died  October  10,  1996, 
in  Biloxi,  Miss.   He  was  re- 
tired from  Firestone  Tire  & 
Rubber  Company,  was  a  re- 
tired captain  in  the  U.S. 
Army,  and  a  veteran  of  World 
War  II  and  the  Korean  War. 
At  Sewanee  he  was  a  member 
of  Delta  Tan  Delta  fraternity. 
Survivors  include  his  wife, 
Marie. 

David  Prentice  Knappjr., 
C44,  of  Birmingham,  Ala., 
died  November  23,  1996.  A 
retired  realtor  and  devel- 
oper, he  was  a  combat  vet- 
eran, serving  in  the  artillery 
in  the  European  Theater 
during  World  War  II.  He  was 
a  long-time  member  and 
deacon  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  Birmingham.  Sur- 
vivors include  his  wife,  Josie 
Styles  Knapp. 
Raymond  Berson  Frye  Sr., 
C'45,  died  June  21,  1996,  at 
his  home  in  Fresno,  Calif.   In 
the  1940s  he  started 
R.  Berson  Frye  Co.  and  was 
instrumental  in  establishing  a 
cotton  trading  link  between 
California  and  Japan,  which 
still  exists  today.  He  served 
on  numerous  boards  related 
to  the  cotton  industry.   He 
served  in  the  U.S.  Army  dur- 
ing World  War  II,  achieving 
the  rank  of  coxswain,  was 
decorated  for  saving  the  lives 
of  three  soldiers.  At  Sewanee 
he  was  a  member  of  Sigma 
Alpha  Epsilon  fraternity. 
Survivors  include  his  wife, 
Virginia  Thomason  Frye,  a 
daughter,  a  son,  and  three 
grandchildren. 

Jonathan  B.  Flynn,  C'47,  of 

Mobile,  Ala.,  died  February 
17,  1997.  He  was  retired  as 
owner  and  operator  of  E.D. 
Flynn  Export  Company.  An 
avid  outdoorsman,  he  was 
involved  in  many  wildlife 
organizations.  He  was  a 
member  of  Phi  Delta  Theta 
at  the  University.  The  John 
Flynn  Memorial  Trophy, 
awarded  at  graduation  by 
Sewanee's  athletic  depart- 
ment, was  established  by  the 
Flynns  in  memory  of  a  son, 
John  Flynn,  C'74.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Jean  Ross 
Flynn,  a  daughter,  and  four 
grandchildren. 

Kenneth  Speir  Swenson, 
C'47,  of  Mesa,  Ariz.,  died 
January  4,  1997.  In  1981  he 


retired  as  vice  president  of 
Home  Federal  Savings  & 
Loan  Association  and  began 
his  own  sales  company.  An 
English  major  and  member 
of  Sigma  Nu  fraternity  at 
Sewanee,  he  and  his  wife 
were  one  of  the  first  couples 
to  live  in  Van  Ness  Hall.  Sur- 
vivors include  his  wife,  Alice, 
and  a  daughter. 

The  Rev.  Roy  Clark  Bast  om, 
C'49,  T'55,  died  November 
22,  1996,  in  Gulfport,  Miss. 
He  served  as  rector  of  St. 
Peter's  by  the  Sea  Episcopal 
Church  in  Gulfport  until  his 
retirement  in  1983,  and  was 
named  rector  emeritus  in 
1994.  He  was  a  former 
trustee  of  the  University  of 
the  South.  Survivors  include 
his  wife,  Esther,  a  daughter, 
two  sons,  and  four  grandchil- 
dren. 

James  A.  Rogers  Sr.,  C'49,  of 

McMinnville,  Tenn.,  died 
January  2,  1997.  A  retired 
educator  and  football  coach, 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Or- 
der of  Gownsmen,  the  "S" 
Club,  and  Sigma  Nu  frater- 
nity at  Sewanee.  He  also 
played  varsity  football.  Survi- 
vors include  his  wife,  Sara 
Ann  Smith  Rogers,  a  son, 
James  A.  Rogers  Jr.,  C'68,  a 
second  son,  a  sister,  a 
brother,  and  three  grandchil- 
dren. 

The  Rev.  Beverley  B. 
Karsten,  C'52,  of  Yonkers, 
N.Y.,  died  November  24, 
1996.  An  Episcopal  priest, 
Karsten  served  parishes  in 
Pennsylvania,  New  Hamp- 
shire, Massachusetts,  and 
New  York.  He  majored  in 
history  at  Sewanee,  and  was  a 
member  of  Kappa  Sigma 
fraternity.  Survivors  include 
his  wife,  Eleanore  Wright 
Karsten,  and  a  brother,  The 
Rev.  Canon  Charles  E. 
Karsten,  C'46. 

Dr.  W.  A.  "Andy"  Hibbert  Jr., 
C'53,  of  Austin,  Texas,  died 
November  8,  1996.  A  native 
of  Pensacola,  Fla,  he  received 
his  medical  degree  from 
Emory  University  in  Atlanta 
after  graduating  from 
Sewanee  with  a  degree  in 
biology.  At  Sewanee  he 
played  varsity  football  and 
was  a  member  of  Sigma  Nu 
fraternity.  He  practiced 
medicine  in  Austin  for  many 


years,  and  was  recognized  as 
one  of  the  leading  colon  and 
rectal  surgeons  in  the  coun- 
try. He  was  a  Scottish  Rite 
Mason.  Survivors  include  his 
wife,  Shirley,  three  sons,  and 
three  grandchildren. 

Major  William  L.  Millar  III, 
C'55,  of  Rocky  Mount,  N.C., 
died  January  30,  1997.  He 
was  retired  from  the  U.S.  Air 
Force  and  was  employed  by 
the  Tandy  Corporation  for  a 
number  of  years.  Apolitical 
science  major  at  Sewanee,  he 
was  a  head  proctor,  co-cap 
tain  of  the  football  team,  a 
member  of  the  Order  of 
Gownsmen,  Omicron  Delta 
Kappa,  Blue  Key,  Pi  Gamma 
Mu,  and  Alpha  Tau  Omega. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  "S" 
Club  and  a  cadet  officer  in 
Sewanee's  Air  Force  ROTC 
unit.  Survivors  include  his 
wife,  Sue  Foster  Millar,  and  a 
son,  William  L.  Millar,  C'76. 

Richard  Cooper  Lindop, 

C'58,  died  January  28,  1997, 
at  his  home  in  Prospect,  Ky. 
He  was  a  retired  vice  presi- 
dent for  marketing  for  Inde- 
pendence Life  &  Accident 
Insurance  Co.,  a  chartered 
life  underwriter,  a  former 
instructor  of  estate  planning 
at  Purdue  University,  former 
president  of  Underwriters 
National  Assurance  of  India- 
napolis, a  member  of  the 
Sierra  Club,  and  a  volunteer 
for  Habitat  for  Humanity. 
He  was  an  economics  major 
at  Sewanee,  was  on  the  swim 
team,  and  was  a  member  of 
Delta  Tau  Delta  fraternity. 
Survivors  include  his  wife, 
Joan  Starr  Lindop,  a  daugh- 
ter, two  sons,  and  a  grand- 
child. 

Pembroke  Scott  Huckins, 
C'59,  died  November  13, 
1996.  A  native  of  Jackson- 
ville, Fla.,  he  lived  in  Ponte 
Vedra,  Fla.,  at  the  time  of  his 
death.  Prior  to  becoming 
president  of  Huckins  Hydro- 
ponics, Inc.  in  1989,  he  was 
affiliated  with  various  finan- 
cial institutions  including 
Paine,  Webber,  Jackson  & 
Curtis  and  Smith  Barney  and 
Company.  At  Sewanee  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Order 
of  Gownsmen,  Pi  Gamma 
Mu,  and  Sigma  Nu.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Cornelia 
Roe  Huckins,  three  children, 
and  a  grandson. 


The  Rev.  Richard  William 
Clark,  T'61,  of  Minter  City, 
Miss.,  died  December  22, 
1996.  He  served  a  number  of 
parishes  in  Tennessee  and 
Mississippi  during  his  minis- 
try. Prior  to  entering  the 
ministry,  he  was  an  insurance 
agent,  a  cost  accountant, 
operated  his  own  concrete 
products  company,  and  was  a 
farmer.  Survivors  include  his 
wife,  Marguerite  Hughes 
Clark,  and  a  son,  Richard 
Clark  Jr.,  C'73. 

Edward  Scruggs  Criddle  HI, 

C'84,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
died  March  15,  1995,  after  a 
battle  with  leukemia. 


SEWANEE/APRIL    1997 


AFTERWORD 


The  Church  and  the  Changing  South 


BY    THE    RT.     REV.     DUNCAN     M  .    GRAY  JR. 

As  a  man  now  well  past  the  Biblical  "three  score  years 
and  ten,"  I  have  seen  so  many  changes  in  my  native  South 
in  the  past  70  years  that  I  might  stand  up  here  all  day  just 
listing  them  one  by  one!  However,  the  events  of  the  past 
few  days — yesterday  in  particular — have  brought  into  focus 
for  me  some  of  die  more  significant  changes  that  have  taken 
place  in  my  lifetime,  and  I  will  try  to  concenfrate  on  these  this 
morning  without  attempting  to  cover  the  entire  spectrum. 

Yesterday:  First,  there  was  the  inauguration  of  Presi- 
dent Clinton  for  a  second  term.  Nothing  unusual  about 
that — except  that  he's  from  Arkansas.  How  could  this  be? 
As  one  who  grew  up  thinking,  on  the  one  hand,  that 
Franklin  Delano  Roosevelt  was  president  for  life;  and  know- 
ing, on  the  other  hand,  that  no  southerner  could  ever  be 
president,  Bill  Clinton's  election,  and  Jimmy  Carter's  before 
him,  represent  for  me  a  major  change  that  has  come  about 
since  World  War  II. 

Of  course,  having  the  speaker  of  the  house  being  a 
man  from  Georgia  and  having  the  majority  leader  in  the 
Senate  a  man  from  Mississippi  would  not  be  all  that  sur- 
prising to  one  of  my  generation;  but  for  both  of  them  to 
be  Republicans?  But  yesterday,  January  20th,  was  impor- 
tant for  another  reason.  It  was  not  only  the  day  of  the 
president's  inauguration,  but  it  was  also  Martin  Luther 
Kingjr.  Day;  the  day  set  aside  to  celebrate  and  give  thanks 
for  the  life  and  ministry  of  one  who  symbolizes  for  us  the 
most  significant  of  all  the  changes  that  have  taken  place 
in  the  South  over  the  past  half  century;  the  changes 
brought  about  by  the  Civil  Rights  Movement  and  by  the 
heirs  of  the  movement. . . 

As  many  of  you  know,  the  leadership  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  designated  January  20,  1997— Martin  Luther 
Kingjr.  Day — as  a  time  for  launching  a  new  and  more 
intensive  effort  to  combat  racism  in  the  Church,  in  our 
society,  and  in  our  own  hearts;  and  extensive  materials 
have  been  provided  to  all  clergy  and  to  all  congregations 
to  help  get  this  effort  under  way.  The  sad  irony  is  that  in 
spite  of  the  tremendous  progress  that  has  been  made  in 
the  South  in  the  last  40  years  in  the  area  of  racial  justice 
and  equality — in  spite  of  this  being  the  most  significant  as- 
pect of  the  changing  South — the  sin  of  racism  is  still  very 
much  alive  and  well.  That  new  day  — that  "dream"  that  Dr. 
Martin  Luther  Kingjr.  articulated  so  beautifully — seems  still 
a  long,  long  way  off  .What  has  been  die  role  of  the  Church  in 
all  of  this?  What  contributions  have  the  churches  made  to  the 
real  changes  diat  have  taken  place?  And  where  do  we  stand 
now  when  more  changes  are  so  desperately  needed? 

Of  course,  as  far  as  the  predominantly  white  churches 
are  concerned,  the  answer  to  the  first  of  these  questions 
is  depressing.  In  the  most  thoroughly  churched  section  of 
our  country,  one  would  have  expected  considerable  lead- 
ership and  influence  from  the  religious  community  in 
bringing  about  a  racially  inclusive  society  with  equal  jus- 
tice and  equal  opportunity  for  all.  But  such  was  not  the 
case — especially  in  the  early  years  of  the  Civil  Rights 
Movement.  It  has  been  pointed  out  over  and  over  again 
that  whatever  progress  was  made  in  those  tumultuous 
years  seems  to  have  been  largely  the  result  of  federal  pres- 
sures, economic  expediency,  and  legal  restraints,  rather 
than   the   result  of  the  moral   leadership  which   the 

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churches  would  have  been  expected  to  provide. 

With  die  African-American  churches  it  was  an  entirely  dif- 
ferent matter.  In  the  South,  at  least,  those  churches  and  their 
members  provided  the  real  leadership  in  the  Civil  Rights 
Movement,  especially  in  its  earlier  stages,  and  the  national 
holiday  we  observed  yesterday  honoring  the  Rev.  Dr.  Martin 
Luther  Kingjr.,  provides  us  with  a  powerful  symbol  of  this 
fact.  It  is  in  (his  respect  diat  the  churches  in  die  South  have 
made  their  most  important  contribution  of  all  to  changing 
the  face  of  America  with  respect  to  race;  and  it  was  the  Afri- 
can-American churches  diat  did  it. 

And  yet,  having  said  all  of  this,  I  think  we  need  to  rec- 
ognize that  whatever  leadership  there  was  in  the  white 
community  did  come,  by  and  large,  through  the 
churches.  I  know  from  my  own  experience  in  Mississippi 
that  prior  to  the  passage  of  the  civil  rights  laws  in  the 
1960s,  the  only  place  normally  identified  with  whites 
where  an  integrated  meeting  could  be  held  was  in  a 
church,  or  in  a  church-related  institution.  In  those  days 
about  the  only  experience  that  a  white  segregationist 
would  ever  have  of  any  kind  of  integration  would  be  in  a 
church  service  or  at  a  church  conference. 

I  know  of  congregations  in  Mississippi — and  I  know 
there  are  others  all  over  the  South — that  are  making  spe- 
cial efforts  to  bring  blacks  and  whites  together  not  only 
for  services  of  worship  but  also  for  a  real  sharing  of  one 
another's  lives  and  experiences.  I  know  of  congregations 
where  whites  are  being  moved  to  face  their  covert  racism 
in  a  way  that  they  have  never  done  before  and  where  truly 
honest  and  candid  discussion  of  such  things  is  taking  place 
across  racial  lines.  And  all  of  this  is  going  on  at  the  local 
level — in  the  local  congregation — where  it  ought  to  be.  I 
know  good  things  that  are  going  on  in  many  places,  and  I'm 
sure  you  do  as  well.  The  journey  has  really  only  just  begun. 
But  as  we  proceed  on  that  journey  I  want  to  leave  with  you 
some  thoughts — let's  say  convictions — that  are  very  close  to 
my  heart. 

The  Christian  religion,  after  all,  is  essentially  a  corpo- 
rate affair.  It's  not  something  we  do  on  our  own.  Our  faith 
is  meant  to  be  lived  and  acted  out  in  community;  and  we 
cannot  be  effective  disciples  of  Jesus  Christ  apart  from 
that  community.  We  need  one  another.  We  need  our 
Lord  as  we  encounter  Him  one  on  one,  so  to  speak,  but 
we  need  Him  also  as  we  encounter  Him  in  other 
people — especially  as  we  encounter  Him  in  the  gathered 
community— the  Church.  All  the  New  Testament  meta- 
phors emphasize  this.  We  are  made  members  of  the  Body 
of  Christ.  We  belong  to  the  Family  of  God.  We  are  parts  of 
a  Building  with  Jesus  as  the  head  cornerstone. ..And  within 
this  Body,  this  Family,  this  Building,  this  community,  our  very 
identity  as  a  Church  is  all  wrapped  up  in  being  that  commu- 
nity for  which  die  world  cries  out  and  which  is  so  essential  to 
racial  harmony  and  peace. 

Obviously,  we  have  a  long,  long  way  to  go  in  tending 
to  the  real  business  of  the  Church.  We  haven't  done  very 
well  in  the  past,  and  we're  not  exactly  turning  the  world 
upside  down  at  the  moment.  But  I  do  believe  we  know  the 
way.  I  do  believe  we  know  where  our  real  hope  lies.  And 
that  may  be  the  most  important  contribution  we  can 
make  to  a  changing  South  in  the  closing  years  of  the  20th 
century:  pointing  the  way  to  that  Power  that  can  change 
human  hearts  and  that  can  make  us  in  fact  as  well  as  in 
theory  "members  one  of  another." 

Bishop  Gray,  T'53,  H'72,  is  chancellor  ofSewanee.  This  es- 
say is  excerpted  from  his  January  1997  Convocation  address. 


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Coming  out  of  retirement, 
James  Dezell,  C'55,  launched 
a  company  he  hopes  will 
revolutionize  the  classroom. 
The  goal:  a  new  system  where 
every  single  child  has  his  or 
her  own  laptop  computer. 
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I  have  never  paid  much  attention  to  business  news. 
It's  not  that  I'm  not  interested  in  stories  about  the 
economy.  I  just  have  a  problem  with  the  way  these 
stories  are  reported.  Business  journalists  tend  to 
crunch  numbers — the  Dow  is  up  200  points,  it's  down 
39  points.  Too  often,  there's  no  context  in  business  re- 
porting; you  don't  get  drawn  in  to  the  news  by  stories 
about  people. 

When  I  interviewed  David  Johnson,  C'7l 
my  view  of  business  news  changed 
forever.  Johnson,  a  Dallas  stock- 
broker, is  a  business  analyst  for  a 
nationally  syndicated  radio  show. 
Marketplace,  and  a  host  of  radio  and 
television  stations  in  Dallas. 

When  Johnson  talks  about  busi- 
ness, people  listen.  And  they  often 
chuckle.  His  irreverent  and  cogent 
style  of  business  analysis  stands  in 
the  face  of  typical  business  report- 
ing. He  speaks  in  English,  not  jar- 
gon. He  tells  stories,  he's  witty,  and 
he  has  25  years  of  experience 
watching  the  stock  market  and 
trends  in  the  economy. 

Johnson  has  become  one  of  the 
most  popular  business  analysts  in 
the  country.  And  he  attributes 
much  of  his  success  to  what  he 
learned  at  Sewanee. 

"My  first  radio  experience  was 
as  a  sports   reporter  on   WUTS   in   Sewanee,"  says 
Johnson.  "Sewanee  taught  me  how  to  think  and  how  to 
write  and  how  to  deal  with  a  changing  world. 

"The  dynamics  of  my  business  is  that  it  is  always 
changing.  It  used  to  be  a  positive  thing  to  say  that 
you've  been  in  the  business  25  years  and  you've  seen 
everything  and  there  aren't  any  surprises.  They 
change  the  rules  every  of  the  business  every  five  to 
seven  years. 

"It's  like  watching  a  really  good  baseball  game  or  chess 
match,  something  with  really  involved  strategy.  You  watch 


the  maneuvers  within  corporations  and  you  learn." 

In  this  issue  which  focuses  on  Sewanee  graduates 
who  are  involved  in  the  media,  you'll  read  about  two 
other  alums  who  have  taken  the  lessons  they  learned 
from  the  University  and  excelled. 

Jon  Meacham,  C'91,  in  his  late  20s,  is  a  senior  edi- 
tor at  Newsweek,  one  of  the  nation's  best  newsmaga- 
zines. In  a  compelling  essay,  Meacham  looks  at 
the  nature  of  reporting  in  the  1990s.  He 
concedes  that  sensational,  tabloid 
stories  are  fundamental  to  report- 
ing today.  But,  Meacham  argues, 
that's  not  necessarily  a  bad  thing. 

"I  think  that,  at  heart,  most 
people  like  our  current  approach: 
a  little  scandal  here,  a  dash  of  sub- 
stance there.  They  probably  won't 
admit  it — in  sophisticated  circles, 
relishing  downmarket  stories  is  a 
secret,  guilty  pleasure,  sort  of  like 
preferring  Cracker  Barrel  cheddar 
cheese  to  Brie,"  says  Meacham. 

Finally,  we  focus  on  Cindy 
Smith,  C'77,  who  helps  to  guide 
the  coverage  of  Nashville's  Tennes- 
sean,  one  of  the  most  respected 
newspapers  in  the  state.  Smith  has 
been  a  journalist  for  20  years.  What 
drives  her,  she  says,  is  the  ability  of 
the  media  to  help  people  and 
change  their  lives. 
"Anything  where  someone  has  been  hurt,  a  child 
has  been  hurt,  people  have  lost  a  great  deal  of  money, 
the  sadness  in  people's  lives,  poverty — these  are  the 
things  that  drive  me  over  and  above  everything  else," 
says  Smith.  "Sure,  that  may  be  what  people  call  a  liberal 
bias,  I  don't  know,  but  I  think  it  is  a  caring  that  is  very 
much  a  part  of  me.  I  wouldn't  work  this  hard  for  any 
other  reason,  I  wouldn't  work  this  hard  if  I  didn't  think 
I  was  making  a  difference." 

— RB 


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COVER  STORY 

This  month,  Sewanee looks  at  the  media  and  society 
through  the  eyes  of  three  of  our  graduates  in  the 
news  Business. 


Business  in  English 

Straight-talking  busi- 
ness analyst  David 
Johnson,  C'7l,  cuts 
through  the  jargon 
with  irreverence, 
humor,  and  qnirki- 
ness  to  make  news 
about  the  economy 
interesting  and  enjoy- 
able for  millions  of 
listeners.  Robert 
Bradford  talks  with 
Johnson  off 
mike. 


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A  Pinch  of  News,  A 
Dash  of  Tabloid 

Newsweek sjon 
Meacham,  C'91, 
examines  die  media's 
apparent  tendency  to 
legitimately  report  die 
sensational  alongside 
die  hard  news.  Is  it  a 
sign  of  the  times?  Is 
this  what  readers,  view- 
ers, and  listeners  really 
want  from  --  ^-* 

journalists?  I  \~\ 


Behind  the  Scenes 

Sewanee's  own  Cindy 
Smith,  C'77,  is  the 
assistant  managing 
editor  of  one  of 
Tennessee's  largest 
newspapers:  a  job 
requiring  preparation, 
and  the  uncanny  abil- 
ity to  think  fast  during 
breaking  news.  Joe 
Romano  takes  you  to 
Smith's  deadline- 
oriented  C7)CT) 
world.  /  S 


College  crew  in  Ten- 
nessee? Sewanee  stu- 
dents have  brought  a 
sport  to  the  Mountain 
usually  found  in  the 
Northeast — and  it  has 
found  a  loyal  follow- 
ing here.  Larry  Dagen- 
hart  introduces  you  to 
crew — not  in  Boston, 
not  on  the  Charles 
River,  but  on  Nickajack 
Lake  just  down  the 
road. 


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Vice-Chancellor's 
Corner 

Everywhere  on 
campus,  from  the 
new  construction  to 
the  athletic  fields, 
the  anticipation  of  a 
new  semester  A 

is  in  the  air.  T~ 


On  the  Mountain 

Groundbreaking  for 
the  Williams  Center 
and  new  chapel  • 
Sewanee  fares  well  in 
U.S.  News  and  Money  • 
Professors  retire  • 
English  professors 
publish  new  books  • 
New  chancellor 
elected  •  Grads  receive 
Fulbright  scholarships 
•  Mountain  springs  • 
New  Regents  chair 
named  •  Alumni, 


friends  give  $16.1 
million  •  Honorary 
degrees  •  V.R  for 
reunions  named  • 
Williamson  receives 
honorary  degree 
from  Centre 
College. 


Sports 


Men's  and  women's 
tennis,  golf,  and  track 
•  Baseball  •  Eques- 
trian •  Foot-     C~)£) 
ball  schedule,   x^/r 


Theology 


Even  with  some 
vocal  division  in  the 
ranks,  this  summer's 
convention  in  the 
City  of  Brotherly 
Love  was  the 
best  of  this 
decade. 


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August  1997 

Stephen  Becker 

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Associated  Alumni  Officers 

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Philip  C  "Chap"Jackson  III,  C'79 

Vice  President  for  Admission 

William  B.  Davis,  C'69 

Vice  President  for  Planned  Giving 

H.  Hunter  HuckabayJi ., 

T'69,  T'83 

Vice  President  for  Church  Relations 

Nora  Frances  Stone  McRae,  C77 
Vice  President  for  Regions 

Laurie  Jan  ett  Rogers,  C85 
Vice  President  for  Career  Services 

Thomas  S.  Rue,  C68 

Vice  President 

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Vice  President  for  Reunions 

James  K.  Yeary,  C'64, 

T'69,  T'89 

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Theology  Alumni 

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Executive  Director 

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The  University  of  the  South 


VICE-CHANCELLOR'S        CORNE 


The  vibrancy,  the 
urgency,  the 

SENSE  OF 

EXPECTATION   THAT 

CHARACTERIZES 

EACH    FALL 

IS. ..PRESENT,   NOT 

JUST  WITH   THE 

VICE-CHANCELLOR 

BUT  WITH   ALL  OF 

THOSE  ENGAGED  IN 

THE  EDUCATIONAL 

ENTERPRISE  CALLED 

SEWANEE. 


The  Thrill  Is  Never  Gone 

Every  August  the  thrill  returns,  pulses  quicken,  the  calm- 
ness of  this  campus  yields  to  the  gradual,  then  surging 
presence  of  students  and  faculty  as  the  new  academic 
year  draws  near.  Workmen  hasten  to  complete  renovation 
projects,  athletic  coaches  ready  their  practice  plans,  teach- 
ers prepare  new  lectures,  new  faculty  attempt  to  settle  into 
a  productive  routine,  new  seminarians  and  their  families 
try  to  get  adjusted  to  their  new  lives  and  status,  fraternity 
houses  suddenly  look  alive  and  even  presentable,  and  the 
shelves  in  the  Supply  Store  are  chock-full  of  books  for  the 
fall  courses.  Away  from  campus  the  parents  of  freshmen 
frantically  purchase  clothes,  supplies,  stationery  (that  most 
under-utilized  commodity),  and  seek  to  inculcate  a  series 
of  lessons  to  their  student  about  to  enter  the  University  of 
the  South.  As  I  write  these  lines,  the  Advent  semester  will 
start  in  only  two  weeks  and-there  will  be  plenty  to  do  in  the 
interval:  a  meeting  of  alumni  volunteers,  a  retreat  for  re- 
gents and  some  faculty,  orientation  for  new  faculty,  stu- 
dents, and  seminarians,  and  then  the  start  of  classes.  \et  the 
vibrancy,  the  urgency,  die  sense  of  expectation  that  charac- 
terizes each  fall  is  already  present,  not  just  with  the  vice- 
chancellor  but  with  all  of  those  engaged  in  the  educational 
enterprise  called  Sewanee. 

□  □  □ 
As  the  Advent  term  nears,  the  sound  of  football  players 
groaning,  soccer  and  field  hockey  teams  hard  at  work,  and 
athletes  in  numerous  other  sports  training  and  preparing 
for  competition:  all  bring  home  the  comfort  that  genuine 
amateur  athletics  has  for  colleges  and  universities  like  the 
University  of  the  South.  This  commitment,  taken  by  the 
regents  and  Vice-Chancellor  Guerry  in  the  late  1930s,  has 
shaped  the  athletic  fortunes  for  more  than  half  a  century. 
It  remains  one  of  the  most  attractive  features  of  Sewanee. 
Recently,  after  serving  for  18  months  on  the  Presi- 
dents' Commission  (and  then  council)  of  the  NCAA,  I  re- 
signed from  the  senior  governing  body  of  collegiate  ath- 
letics. I  did  so  to  devote  more  attention  to  the  completion 
of  The  Campaign  for  Sewanee  and  its  successor  projects. 
But  I  also  did  so  from  a  profound  sense  of  frustration  and 
even  despair.  I  do  not  believe  intercollegiate  athletics  at 
major  universities  or  even  many  smaller  ones  will  ever  be 
restored  to  sanity,  perspective,  and  accountability.  The 
presidents  may  appear  to  be  in  control  of  the  NCAA,  but 
the  athletic  directors,  management  councils,  and  head 
coaches  still  call  most  of  the  plays.  While  there  is  much 
ballyhoo  about  NCAA  sanctions,  they  mostly  amount  to 
slaps  on  the  wrists  (only  SMU  ever  really  paid  the  price). 
Measured  by  the  iron  test — can  the  president  fire  the  ath- 
letic director  or  leading  coach  and  not  be  fired?  Far  fewer 
than  half  the  presidents  of  Division  I  colleges  are  in  con- 
trol. Nor  is  the  situation  much  better  at  small  schools  as 
institutions  seek  to  move  up  in  divisional  status  or  build 
new  stadiums  or  hire  still  more  coaches  and  spend  still 


more  money,  even  as  their  faculty  salaries  deteriorate, 
their  libraries  fall  further  behind,  and  the  general  morale 
and  public  esteem  for  higher  education  falls  further  and 
further. 

Competition,  good  old-fashioned  play,  winning  more 
than  losing,  even  Division  III  playoffs:  they  are  a  part  of  the 
Sewanee  experience  and  will  continue  to  be  so.  Here  you 
know  the  athletes,  teach  them,  watch  them  mature,  and 
then  see  them  enter  productive,  rich  lives.  For  one  who 
once  served  as  a  manager  on  scholarship  at  Tulane  for  the 
football  program,  played  on  a  state  championship  basket- 
ball team,  and  conveyed  the  love  of  sports  to  three  chil- 
dren, and  who  snatches  an  inning  or  two  of  many  Braves 
games,  I  am  sensitive  to  the  many  benefits  that  collegiate 
sports  bring.  But  I  find  myself  believing  that  real  students 
playing  real  sports  are  where  colleges  should  be  devoting 
their  time,  their  money,  and  their  character.  Otherwise  we 
in  higher  education  risk  being  in  the  entertainment  busi- 
ness or  simply  serving  as  die  minor  leagues  for  professional 
sports.  As  the  fall  approaches,  I  am  pleased  that  Sewanee 
has  remained  true  to  its  commitment  to  let  education  be 
the  primary  focus  of  its  activities,  with  everything  else  but- 
tressing this  spiritual  and  educational  experience. 
□  □  □ 

The  University  has  a  multi-faceted  relationship  with 
the  Sewanee  community.  This  summer  reminded  us  once 
more  of  these  responsibilities  and  opportunities.  First,  I 
wrote  one  of  the  largest  checks  of  my  tenure  as  vice-chan- 
cellor as  we  bought  a  new  fire  engine,  to  be  delivered  in 
September  and  replacing  a  very  tired,  old  truck.  Then 
came  the  annual  Fourth  of  July  celebration,  with  flags  fly- 
ing, children  parading,  and  joy  and  festivities  everywhere. 
Then  suddenly,  late  on  the  afternoon  of  the  4th,  a  small 
tornado-like  microburst  raced  across  the  Domain.  In  10 
minutes  trees  were  toppled,  some  cars  crushed,  but  no 
one  hurt.  Some  of  the  older  trees  in  the  central  campus 
fell  as  did  many  in  the  older  streets.  But  quickly,  effi- 
ciently, the  emergency  services  under  the  general  coordi- 
nation of  Jerry  Smith  and  Tom  Kepple  rallied,  cleared 
away  the  debris,  and  reassured  all.  So  much  happened 
that  the  traditional  Fourth  ofjuly  fireworks  proceeded  as 
if  the  storm  had  never  occurred. 

Finally,  on  the  local  scene,  I  take  this  public  space  to  wel- 
come die  new  rector  of  Otey  Memorial  Paiish.  the  Rev.  Tom 
Macfie,  C'80,  and  T'89,  his  wife,  Pamela,  who  serves  as  asso- 
ciate professor  of  English,  and  their  son,  Thomas.  Tom 
comes  to  Sewanee  after  a  very  successful  rectorship  at  St. 
Barnabas  in  Tullahoma.  Chaplain  Ward,  Dean  Lytle,  and  the 
entire  University  community  look  forward  to  working  with 
Otey  Parish,  whose  services  to  the  community  are  invaluable 
and  whose  succession  of  rectors  and  parishioners  over  many 
generations  have  contributed  much  to  die  character  and  es- 
sence of  the  Sewanee  experience. 


<^L^J?i/vu 


SEWANEE/AUGUST    1997 


ON       THE        MOUNTAIN 


Sewanee  Breaks  Ground  for  Tennessee 
Williams  Center  and  Chapel  of  die  Apostles 

University  officials  broke  ground  on  May  2  for  a 
new  complex  to  be  named  in  honor  of  Tennes- 
see Williams,  whose  bequest  to  the  institution 
made  the  construction  project  possible.  The  Uni- 
versity also  held  groundbreaking  ceremonies  to 
mark  the  start  of  work  on  a  new  chapel  to  be  built 
on  the  site  of  the  School  of  Theology.  Work  on  the 
two  projects,  which  combined  approach  $7  mil- 
lion, is  expected  to  be  completed  by  the  fall  of 
1998. 

The  $3.3  million  Tennessee  Williams  Center, 
which  will  encompass  the  renovation  of  existing 
space  as  well  as  new  construction,  will  include  a 
150-seat  theatre,  classrooms,  scene  and  costume 
shops,  faculty  offices,  dressing  rooms,  and  a  design 
studio.  The  project  is  being  funded  with  a  portion 
of  Tennessee  Williams's  bequest  to  the  University. 
Sewanee  received  the  remainder  of  the  late 
playwright's  estate  in  September  of  1996  following 
the  death  of  Williams's  sister,  Rose.  Estimated  at  $7 
million,  the  estate  includes  the  rights  to  Williams' 
body  of  plays. 

The  theatre  in  the  Williams  Center  will  be 
named  after  Proctor  Hill,  C'60,  who  made  a  major 
gift  for  the  complex.  The  lobby  of  the  new  center 
will  be  named  for  the  Rev.  Walter  E.  Dakin,  Tennes- 
see Williams's  grandfather  and  an  influential  fig- 
ure in  the  playwright's  life.  Dakin  attended  the 
School  of  Theology  in  the  late  1890s. 

The  Chapel  of  the  Apostles  will  serve  as  a  center 


Theatre  department  chair  Peter  Smith  talks  about  the  impact  of  the  Tennessee  Williams 
Center  during  groundbreaking  ceremonies.  Seated  from  left  are  Vice-Chancellor  Samuel 
Williamson,  Engish  professor  and  Sewanee  Writers'  Conference  director  Wyatt  Prunty,  C'69, 
and  University  Chaplain  Tom  Ward,  C'67. 

of  worship  for  the  seminary  and  will  provide  an  im- 
portant space  for  the  training  of  priests.  The 
building  will  have  capacity  to  seat  250  people  and 
will  be  flexible  in  order  to  meet  the  varied  needs  of 
the  liturgies  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

Funding  for  the  $3.2  million  chapel  was  boosted 
by  a  recent  anonymous  $1  million  donation,  as  well 
as  a  major  gift  from  Paul,  H'88,  and  Evelyn  Howell 
of  Houston,  Texas,  whose  contribution  honors  the 
Rt.  Rev.  John  M.  Allin,  C'43,  T'45,  H'62,  former 
presiding  bishop  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 


Sewanee  Fares  Well  in  U.S.  News,  Monej 

The  University  of  the  South  has  been  ranked  number 
27  among  the  nation's  best  liberal  arts  colleges  in 
the  Sept.  1  issue  of  U.S.  News  &  World  Report.  It  ap- 
peared on  newsstands  in  late  August.  The  ranking  rep- 
resents Sewanee's  best  placement  in  the  magazine's  an- 
nual "Best  Colleges"  issue.  Last  year,  Sewanee  was 
ranked  number  29. 

"We  are  very  pleased  that  the  external  world  recog- 
nizes the  excellence  that  has  long  characterized  a 
Sewanee  education,"  said  Sewanee's  Vice-Chancellor 
Samuel  Williamson. 

Among  other  factors,  U.S.  News  bases  its  rankings 
on  academic  reputation,  retention,  faculty  resources, 
selectivity,  financial  resources,  and  alumni  giving. 
U.S.  News  also  produces  a  "best  values"  ranking  in 


which  the  University  of  the  South  placed  18th.  This 
second  ranking  takes  into  account  factors  of  cost,  fi- 
nancial aid  and  quality  of  education.  According  to  the 
magazine,  "Because  U.S.  News  believes  that  the  best 
values  are  found  among  colleges  that  are  above  aver- 
age academically,  only  the  top  half  of  national  institu- 
tions in  the  quality  rankings  are  considered." 

Additional  information  is  available  on  the 
magazine's  web  site  at  http://www.usnews.com/ 
usnews/edu/college/NATLBJNEHTM. 

Sewanee  also  has  been  ranked  in  the  newest  issue  of 
Money  magazine.  In  its  ranking  of  the  100  best  college 
buys,  the  University  was  ranked  44,  while  in  the 
magazine's  separate  rating  of  small  liberal  arts  col- 
leges, the  institution  was  placed  at  eight. 

The  Moneyweb  site  is  at  http://www.pathfinder.com 
/@@IcxvTAcAI*75Hez9/money/colleges98/article/ 
topl00.html. 


THE    UNIVERSITY   OF  THE    SOUTH 


ON       THE       MOUNTAIN 


Together,  Herbert  Wentz, 
below,  and  Willie  Cocke, 
right,  taught  at  Sewanee  for 
more  than  seven  decades. 


Willie  Cocke  and  Herbert  Wentz  Retire 
From  Teaching  Duties  at  Sewanee 

Two  long-standing  members  of  Sewanee 's  faculty  bade  fere- 
well  to  their  teaching  duties  this  spring.  Willie  Cocke  Jesse 
Spalding  Professor  of  English  Literature,  and  Herbert 
Wentz,  professor  of  religion,  retired  at  the  end  of  die  academic 
year  in  May.  Between  them,  the  two  have  compiled  more  than 
seven  decades  of  service  to  the  University. 

Willie  Cocke  was  just  16  when  he  first  set  foot  on  the 
Mountain  as  an  undergraduate.  Cocke,  who  was  awarded 
a  bachelor's  degree  from  Sewanee  in  1951 ,  left  the  Univer- 
sity for  seven  years  as  he  served  in  the  U.  S.  Navy  in 
Korea,  pursued  graduate  studies  at  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, and  taught  for  two  years  at  the  Carnegie  In- 
stitute of  Technology  in  Pittsburgh.  He  returned  to 


Sewanee  English  Professors  Publish  New  Books 


Wjatt  Pnmry 


Poetry  and  politics  are  the  focus  of  new  books  published  by 
two  Sewanee  English  professors. 
Carlton  Professor  of  English  Wyatt  Prunty,  C'69,  has  writ- 
ten his  fifth  volume  of  poetry,  Since  the  Noon  Mail  Stopped,  published 
by  the  Johns  Hopkins  University  Press.  Prunty,  who  also  directs  the 
Sewanee  Writers'  Conference,  has  been  called  "one  of  the  most 
gifted  and  technically  accomplished  American  poets  of  die  post- 
World  War  II  generation." 

Donald  Justice,  a  Pulitzer  Prize-winning  poet,  says  of  Prunty's 
latest  work:  "In  poetry  this  honest,  you  can  see  the  character  of 
the  writer  pretty  clearly.  I  see,  too,  a  certain  fine  pride,  the  pride 
taken  in  working  carefully  to  get  things  right.  Here,  then,  is  a 
poetry  both  artful  and  truthful,  a  pretty  rare  case." 

Assistant  Professor  of  English  John  Grammer  has  written  Pasto- 
ral and  Politics  in  tlie  Old  South,  published  by  Louisiana  State  Univer- 
sity Press.  In  a  group  of  five  biographical  and  critical  sketches, 
Grammer  explores  issues  surrounding  southern  identity. 

Noted  critic  Lewis  P.  Simpson  writes  of  Grammer's  book: 
"A  brilliantly  conceived  and  convincingly  argued  exploration 
of  the  integral  relationship  between  literature  and  politics  in 
the  antebellum  South." 


Sewanee  as  an  instructor  of  English  in  1958.  Along  the  way, 
Cocke  earned  a  doctorate  from  Vanderbilt  University,  and 
he  also  taught  at  the  University  of  Alabama  in  Huntsville  as 
well  as  at  the  Lhiiversity  of  Tennessee,  Nashville.  He  was 
promoted  to  full  professor  in  1978. 

Among  his  yearly  offerings,  Cocke  taught  courses  in 
early  English  drama,  Shakespeare,  and  Milton.  Through- 
out his  four  decades  in  the  classroom,  Cocke  was  closely  in- 
volved with  not  only  the  life  of  the  University,  but  the  life 
of  the  Sewanee  community  as  well.  For  years,  he  seived  as 
director  of  the  Sewanee  Summer  School  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  its  faculty.  Cocke  was  also  a  frequent  member  of  the 
British  Studies  at  Oxford  faculty  and  serves  as  a  faculty  rep- 
resentative to  the  Board  of  Trustees.  Devoted  to  the  com- 
munity public  school,  Cocke  served  as  president  of  the 
Sewanee  P.T.A.,  and  was  associate  den  master  for  the  local 
chapter  of  the  Cub  Scouts.  For  30  years  he  served  as  faculty 
adviser  to  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  fraternity.  For  many  years 
he  was  the  president  of  the  local  chapter  of  the  Associa- 
tion for  the  Preservation  of  Tennessee  Antiquities. 

"His  love  for  books  and  children,"  wrote  Samuel  F. 
Pickering  Jr.,  C'63,  "for  that  is  what  we  were,  made 
Sewanee,  as  Campion  might  put  it,  'a  heav'nly  para- 
dise.' English  at  Sewanee  will  not  be  the  same  without 
him." 

The  appointment  of  Herbert  Wentz  to  the  faculty  at 
Sewanee  in  1965  coincided  exacdy  with  the  creation  of 
the  Department  of  Religion  at  the  University.  Before  his 
arrival,  the  teaching  of  religion  at  Sewanee  was  through 
a  collection  of  courses  taught  by  faculty  members  who 
also  held  joint  appointments  at  All  Saints'  Chapel  or  at 
the  School  of  Theology.  Wentz  was  the  first  person 
hired  to  teach  religion  full  time  in  the  college,  with  no 
other  assigned  responsibilities. 

Wentz  earned  a  bachelor's  degree  in  philosophy  from 
die  University  of  North  Carolina,  a  bachelor's  in  sacred  the- 
ology from  the  General  Theological  Seminary,  a  master's 
from  the  University  of  Oxford,  and  a  doctorate  from  the 
University  of  Exeter.  An  ordained  member  of  die  Episcopal 
clergy,  Wentz  worked  in  two  parishes,  in  Raleigh,  N.C.,  and 
Atlanta,  before  coming  to  teach  at  Sewanee. 

With  teaching  duties  centered  on  Bible  courses,  Wentz 
served  for  almost  a  decade  as  secretary  of  the  college  fac- 
ulty, the  joint  faculties  and  the  University  Senate.  For  16 
years,  he  served  as  marshal  of  the  University  faculties.  In 
this  position,  he  was  responsible  for  creating  the  services 
now  known  as  convocations. 

In  a  resolution  adopted  by  the  college  faculty  in  April, 
Wentz's  departure  was  noted  with  regret  by  his  col- 
leagues. His  tenure,  according  to  Larry  Carden,  associate 
professor  of  religion,  "has  been  characterized  chiefly  by 
benevolence,  loyalty,  high  standards  of  mind  and  word, 
and  by  good  humor..  We  shall  miss  you  Herbert,  and  we 
wish  you  well  in  your  retirement  adventures.  We  shall  seek 
and  no  doubt  find  your  successor,  but  never  your  replace- 
ment!" 


SEWANEE/AUGUST    1997 


ON       THE       MOUNTAIN 


Bishop  Wimberly  Elected  as  21st  Chancellor 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Don  A.  Wimberly,  bishop  of  the  Epis- 
copal Diocese  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  was  elected  to  a 
six-year  term  as  the  21st  Chancellor  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  the  South  at  the  annual  trustees  meeting  May  1. 
Retiring  Chancellor,  the  Rt.  Rev.  Duncan  M.  Gray  Jr., 
presided  at  the  service  of  installation  in  All  Saints' 
Chapel  following  the  meeting. 

"I  have  a  real  devotion  to  this  place,"  said  Wimberly 
after  his  election  in  Convocation  Hall.  "1  was  looking 
at  the  picture  of  Leonidas  Polk,  tire  first  bishop  [a 
founding  bishop  of  the  University  and  second  chancel- 
lor], and  realized  this  is  so  unbelievable  to  me.  I  abso- 
lutely love  Sewanee  and  I  want  to  do  the  best  job  I  can 
do  to  further  its  ministry  and  mission." 

As  chancellor,  Wimberly  chairs  the  Board  of  Trust- 
ees, sits  as  an  ex-officio  member  of  the  20-member 
Board  of  Regents  (the  governing  bodies  of  the  Univer- 
sity) and  represents  the  bishops  of  the  28-owning  Epis- 
copal dioceses  of  the  University. 

This  is  the  second  honor  recently  bestowed  upon 
the  59-year-old  Wimberly.  In  April,  he  was  thrust  into 
national  prominence  when  he  was  named  one  of  four 
nominees  for  the  election  of  Presiding  Bishop  of  the 
Episcopal  Church. 

Wimberly  comes  to  the  role  of  chancellor  at  a  time 
when  Sewanee  is  strengthening  its  ties  to  the  Episcopal 
Church.  Vice-Chancellor  Samuel  Williamson  has 
stated  that  a  key  objective  of  his  administration  is  for 
Sewanee  to  be  recognized  as  "the  Episcopal  Univer- 
sity." At  the  same  time,  Sewanee  continues  to  work  to- 
ward its  firm  commitment  to  be  one  of  the  finest  col- 
leges of  liberal  arts  and  sciences  in  the  country. 

"I  hope  to  be  an  articulate  voice  for  Sewanee,"  said 
Wimberly.  "I  hope  to  take  Sam's  idea  and  go  with  it. 
We  need  to  raise  the  message  intentionally  at  the  di- 
ocesan level  and  support  it.  We  do  have  to  ask  the 
hard  questions:  What  does  it  mean  to  be  an  owning 


diocese?  We  need  to 
look  at  it,  across  the 
table  from  one  an- 
other, and  strength- 
en the  ties." 

As  the  new  chan- 
cellor, Wimberly  is  re- 
visiting much  of  his 
past.  He  began  the 
process  toward  ordi- 
nation under  the 
guidance  of  the  Rt. 
Rev.  Girault  M.Jones, 
bishop  of  Louisiana 
and  University  chan- 
cellor (1967-73).  The 
Rt.  Rev.  John  M.Allin, 
chancellor  from  1973- 
79,  bishop  of  Missis- 
sippi, and  23rd  pre- 
siding bishop  of  the 
Episcopal  Church, 
was  "a  real  icon  for 
me,"  said  Wimberly. 
Allin  preached  at 
Wimberly's  institu- 
tion as  dean  of  the  Ca- 
thedral of  St.  John's, 
Jacksonville,  Fla.,  in 
1978. 

Wimberly  is  a  1959  graduate  of  Louisiana  State 
University,  and  received  his  M.  Div.  from  Virginia 
Theological  Seminary  in  1971.  He  served  churches  in 
New  York,  Louisiana,  and  Florida  before  his  consecra- 
tion as  bishop  co-adjutor  of  Lexington  in  1984.  He 
has  served  on  many  boards  and  foundations  includ- 
ing Sewanee's  board  of  regents,  1991-97.  As  bishop  of 
one  of  the  owning  dioceses  of  the  University,  he  was 
honored  with  a  doctor  of  divinity  degree  from 
Sewanee  in  1988. 


Former  Chancellor  Du ncan 
M.  Gray  Jr.  presides  at  the 
installation  oftheRt.  Rev. 
Don  A.  Wimberly  as  the 
University's  new  chancellor. 
Annwn  Myers,  associate 
university  chaplain,  at- 
tended the  ceremony. 


Two  Sewanee  Graduates  Receive  Prestigious 
Fulbright  Scholarships 

Two  members  from  Sewanee's  class  of  1997,  Julian  Bibb 
of  Franklin,  Term.,  and  Mariana  Johnson  of  Greens- 
boro, N.C.,  have  been  awarded  Fulbright  grants  to 
study  overseas  during  1 997-98. 

The  Sewanee  students,  who  both  received  bachelor  of 
arts  degrees  in  English  at  the  University's  commencement 
ceremonies  in  May,  are  among  approximately  1,600  grant- 
ees who  will  travel  abroad  for  the  1997-98  academic  year 
under  the  Fulbright  Program. 

Bibb  will  be  spending  his  year  abroad  in  Korea,  where  he 


will  teach  English  to  high-school  age  students.  Bibb  will 
spend  seven  weeks  in  Seoul,  Korea,  for  intensive  training 
before  heading  another  community  where  he  will  begin 
teaching.  Mariana  Johnson  plans  to  study  at  the  Catholic 
University  in  Lima,  Peru,  where  she  will  research  the  works 
of  the  tum-of-the-century  Peruvian  novelist  Mercedes 
Cabello  de  Carbonera. 

Established  under  congressional  legislation  introduced 
by  former  Sen.  J.  William  Fulbright  of  Arkansas,  the  pro- 
gram is  designed  to  "increase  mutual  understanding  be- 
tween people  of  the  United  States  and  of  other  countries." 
Individuals  are  selected  on  the  basis  of  academic  and  profes- 
sional qualifications,  plus  their  ability  and  willingness  to 
share  ideas  and  experiences  with  people  of  diverse  cultures. 


The  University  of  the  SouTf 


ON       THE       MOUNTAIN 


The  Spring  of  Life 


A  forgotten  impou  ndment, 
used  to  collect  spring  water 
in  the  late  19th  and  early 
20th  centuries,  helped 
Sewanee  geologists  trace  the 
Domain 's  hydrologic past. 


Now  largely  forgotten,  the  freshwater  springs  that  feed 
into  the  ravine  known  as  Abbo's  Alley  once  played  an 
integral  role  in  the  early  life  of  the  Sewanee  commu- 
nity. Some  of  them  are  still  visible,  others  are  nearly  over- 
grown by  vegetation  and  can  be  difficult  to  find.  Some  are 
marked  by  ornate  stone  impoundments,  used  to  collect 
water,  while  others  are  simpler.  Virtually  unused,  all  con- 
tinue to  run  today,  but  in  the  days  before  the  Sewanee 
Utility  District  and  indoor  plumbing,  these  springs  were 


the  lifeblood  of  the  community. 

Just  how  important  they  once  were  was  what  Gray 
Ingram,  C'97,  learned  as  he  began  an  independent  study 
under  the  tutelage  of  Martin  Knoll,  C'82,  assistant  profes- 
sor of  geology,  earlier  this  year.  Ingram's  original  intent 
was  to  trace  the  source  of  the  water,  which  he  did.  But,  as 
he  was  busy  determining  that  the  whole  of  the  area 
around  University  Avenue,  serves  as  a  large  collecting 
"bowl"  for  the  perennial  springs,  his  work  also  revealed  a 
portrait  of  life  in  Sewanee  more  than  a  century  ago. 

Mountaintop  springs,  according  to  Knoll,  are  rather 
unique.  Most  often,  springs  are  found  on  the  sides  or  at  the 
base  of  a  mountain.  The  relatively  flat  area  along  Univer- 
sity Avenue,  though,  provides  a  collection  area  to  feed 
these  springs.  And,  the  underlying  rock  layers  also  provide 
a  natural  barrier  to  keep  the  water  on  top  of  the  moi  intain. 
Water  percolates  through  a  layer  of  Sewanee  conglomer- 
ate, or  sandstone,  before  it  is  stopped  by  a  layer  of  imper- 
meable shale  and  channeled  into  the  ravine. 

Even  before  the  community  was  established,  these 


waters  were  frequented  by  Native  Americans,  and  the 
area  surrounding  what  is  now  known  as  Tremlett  Spring 
(formerly  Rowe  Spring),  located  just  behind  the  Fowler 
Center,  has  provided  some  of  the  richest  archaeological 
finds  on  the  Cumberland  Plateau,  according  to  Ingram. 
Later,  as  the  University's  founders  considered  sites  for  the 
school,  die  springs  probably  gave  Sewanee  a  significant  advan- 
tage, according  to  Ingram.  The  first  recorded  building  in 
Sewanee,  Rowe's  Cabin,  was  located  just  a  few  hundred  feet 
from  Tremlett  Spring,  at  the  intersection  of  two  main  stage 
roads,  now  Texas  and  University  avenues.  Ingram  also  notes 

tiiat  the  oldest  structures 
on  the  Domain  are  clus- 
tered within  close  prox- 
imity to  the  line  of  pe- 
rennial springs. 

The  springs  gar- 
nered a  reputation  as  a 
source  of  plentiful  and 
good  tasting  water,  says 
Ingram.  During  the 
Civil  War.  soldiers  from 
both  Federal  and  Con- 
federate armies,  who 
camped  in  Abbo's  Alley 
at  various  times,  wrote 
home  to  mention, 
among  other  things, 
how  good  the  water 
was.  "We  are  encamped 
upon  the  top  of  the 
Cumberland  Moun- 
tains...on  the  site  of  the 
grand  Southern  Uni- 
versity that  was  to  have 
been. . . "  wrote  one  fed- 
eral soldier  in  August,  1863.  "Near  our  quarters  is  a  very  large 
spring  of  the  clearest  and  finest  water  I  ever  drank." 

After  die  war,  when  die  University  was  re-established,  die 
springs'  reputation  continued  to  grow,  especially  after  die  Iron 
Men  of  Sewanee 's  1899  football  team  completed  an  unde- 
feated season.  It  was  diis  team  diat  tacked  up  five  victories  in  a 
six-day  road  trip.  According  to  Arthur  Ben  and  Elizabedi  N. 
Chitty's  Sewanee  Sampler,  "among  die  squad's  mostvalued  equip- 
ment were  two  barrels  of  Tremlett  Spring  water,  calculated  to 
offset  dietary  changes  and  inactivity  during  die  long  trip. 

Until  the  1930s,  says  Ingram,  the  springs  continued  to 
serve  as  the  community's  main  source  of  water,  ultimately 
supplying  a  tank  atop  Breslin  Tower.  Even  after  they  ceased 
to  be  the  main  water  supply,  die  springs  were  still  used  by 
many  of  die  local  residents,  who  would  gather  it,  perhaps  as 
a  novelty,  by  die  jug. 

"I  sometimes  joke  that  great  civilizations  are  always  built 
close  to  water  sources,  and  that  Sewanee 's  no  different.  But 
this  truly  is  an  important  part  of  Sewanee  history  that  is  now 
almost  forgotten,"  says  Knoll. 


SEWANEE/AUGUST    1997 


ON       THE       MOUNTAIN 


Beecken  Named  New  Board  of  Regents  Chair 


In  May,  David  Beecken,  C'68,  was  named  chair  of  the 
Board  of  Regents  and  four  new  members  were  elected 
as  regents.  The  newest  members  of  the  board  are  Janet 
Kibler,  C'80,  Blucher  Lines,  C71,  the  Rt.  Rev.  Edward 
Salmon,  (756,  H'91,  and  the  Rev.  Jeffrey  Walker,  C'72, 
T75. 

Beecken,  senior  managing  director  with  Beecken, 
Petty  and  Company,  has  been  a  regent  since  1993.  An  eco- 
nomics major  at  Sewanee,  he  earned  an  MBA  from  the 
University  of  Chicago  and  a  master's  degree  in  econom- 
ics from  the  London  School  of  Economics. 

He  has  been  a  senior  vice  president  and  managing  di- 
rector for  mergers  and  acquisitions  at  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Chicago  and  a  vice  president  with  Smith  Barney. 
Beecken  has  been  active  in  The  Campaign  for  Sewanee, 
serving  as  chairman  of  the  Chicago  Area  Campaign  kick- 
off  and  national  chairman  of  the  Sewanee  Annual  Fund. 

Kibler  is  director  of  strategic  planning  for  the  advertis- 
ing and  publishing  group  at  BellSouth  in  Atlanta.  After 
graduating  from  Sewanee,  she  received  her  MBA  from 
the  University  of  Chicago.  She  moved  to  New  York  City, 
where  she  worked  for  Pepsico  and  an  investment  banking 
firm  before  returning  to  Atlanta.  She  has  been  an  active 
volunteer  for  Sewanee  since  the  1980s,  working  with 
alumni  clubs  in  Atlanta  and  Macon  and  serving  as  vice 
president  for  career  services  for  the  Alumni  Association. 
She  is  also  an  alumni  trustee. 

Lines  is  a  partner  with  the  law  firm  of  Lines,  Hinson, 
&  Lines  in  Quincy,  Fla.  He  practices  in  the  areas  of  civil, 
real  estate,  probate,  and  corporate  law.  He  received  his 
law  degree  from  the  Cumberland  School  of  Law.  A  mem- 
ber of  Sewanee's  Board  of  Trustees,  he  has  also  been  ac- 
tive in  alumni  affairs,  serving  as  president  of  the  Sewanee 
Club  of  Tallahassee. 

Salmon  has  been  bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  South  Caro- 
lina since  1990.  He  received  his  master  of  divinity  degree 
from  Virginia  Theological  Seminary.  Since  his  ordination 
in  1960,  Salmon  has  served  parishes  in  the  Diocese  of  Ar- 
kansas and  was  rector  of  St.  Michael  and  George  Clayton 
Church  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  from  1978-90.  Along-time  mem- 
ber of  Sewanee's  Board  of  Trustees,  Salmon  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  The  Campaign  for  Sewanee  Steering  Committee 
and  the  College  of  Arts  and  Sciences  Visiting  Committee. 

Walker  is  rector  of  Christ  Episcopal  Church  in  Green- 
wich, Conn.  Prior  to  coming  to  Christ  Church,  Walker 
served  parishes  in  his  hometown  of  Houston,  Texas,  from 
1975-93.  Walker  is  co-chair  of  the  School  of  Theology  Vis- 
iting Committee  and  has  been  a  member  of  Sewanee's 
Board  of  Trustees  since  1989.  He  has  also  been  active  in 
the  alumni  association,  serving  on  the  Alumni  Council 
and  as  a  career  services  advisor. 


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Alumni,  Friends  Give  116.1  Million 


Sewanee  alumni  and  friends  contributed  $16.1  million  to 
the  University  during  the  fiscal  year  which  spanned  from 
July  1, 1996,  to  June  30, 1997.  Total  giving  to  the  Univer- 
sity surpassed  the  previous  year  by  more  than  70  percent. 

The  largest  single  gift  came  from  the  estate  of  the 
late  playwright  Tennessee  Williams,  the  value  of  which 
is  estimated  at  $7  million,  and  includes  the  value  of  the 
copyrights  to  Williams's  body  of  plays.  Sewanee  received 
the  Williams  bequest  in  September. 

"We  are  heartened  that  the  University  has  received 
such  generous  support  from  members  of  the  Sewanee 
family,"  said  Vice-Chancellor  Samuel  Williamson.  "As  we 
approach  the  end  of  The  Campaign  for  Sewanee,  our 
$91.5  million  fund-raising  effort,  people  are  rising  to  the 
challenge  of  sustaining  the  founders'  vision." 

Gifts  during  the  fiscal  year  bolstered  a  range  of  Uni- 
versity programs,  providing  funds  for  scholarship  and  fi- 
nancial aid,  community  service  through  All  Saints' 
Chapel,  and  building  revenue  for  the  Tennessee  Williams 
Center  and  the  Chapel  of  the  Apostles  at  the  School  of 
Theology. 

Alumni  and  friends  also  rose  to  the  call  of  the 
Sewanee  Annual  Fund,  contributing  about  $1.9  million. 
The  annual  fund  surpassed  its  $1.8  million  goal  for  the 
second  straight  year.  This  year,  43  percent  of  the  alumni 
participated  in  the  drive,  while  almost  60  percent  of  the 
faculty  and  staff  gave  to  the  fund.  Alumni  contributed 
nearly  $1  million  to  the  annual  fund  with  their  gifts  total- 
ing $950,178.  One  hundred  percent  of  the  Board  of  Re- 
gents and  99  percent  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  contrib- 
uted to  this  year's  effort. 

"I'm  very  pleased  that  both  the  goal  and  last  year's  to- 
tal were  surpassed,  and  I'm  grateful  for  all  of  the  help 
that  Sewanee  received  from  alumni,  friends,  parents,  and 
students  whose  volunteer  efforts  made  this  strong  finish 
possible,"  said  Steve  Becker,  vice  president  for  university 
relations.  "The  University  is  very  fortunate  to  have  so 
many  donors  who  have  chosen  to  show  their  support  in 
such  a  generous  way." 


Sewanee 
Chancellor  Don 
Wimberly,  left, 
Presiding  Bishop 
Edmond  Brown- 
ing, and  Vice- 
Chancellor  Samuel 
Williamson  gath- 
ered at  a  highly 
successful  Sewanee 
dinner  at  the 
General  Conven- 
tion in  Philadel- 
phia this  summer. 


The  University  of  the  South 


ON       THE       MOUNTAIN 


From  left,  Vice-Chancellor 
Samuel  Williamson,  honor- 
ary degree  recipients  the 
Rev.  Mark  Anschutz  and 
Dr.  LaSalle  Lefall,  and 
former  Chancellor  Duncan 
M.  Gray  Jr. 


Record  Class  Graduates  in  May 

The  largest  graduating  class  in  the  history  of  the  Col- 
lege of  Arts  and  Sciences,  288  in  all,  received 
bachelor's  degrees  in  commencement  ceremonies  at 
All  Saints'  Chapel  on  May  11.  The  total  number  of  gradu- 
ates, including  those  from  the  School  of  Theology, 
topped  320. 

Honorary  degrees  were  awarded  to  Dr.  LaSalle  D. 
Leffall  Jr.,    and    the    Rev. 
Mark  S.  Anschutz. 

Dr.  LaSalle  D.  Leffall  Jr. 
is  Charles  R.  Drew  Professor 
and  chief  of  surgery  at 
Howard  University  Hospital 
and  College  of  Medicine.  A 
native  of  Tallahassee,  Fla., 
Leffall  earned  a  bachelor's 
degree  from  Florida  A&M 
University  in  1948,  before 
receiving  an  M.D.  from 
Howard  University  in  1952. 
Well  known  for  his  cancer 
research,  Leffall  is  former 
president  of  the  American 
Cancer  Society,  and  he  also 
is  a  past  president  of  the 

American  College  of  Surgeons,  the  Society  of  Surgical 
(  )ik  ologv,  .uid  the  Soc  ietv  ol  Surgi<  al  (  luii  nun. 

A  member  of  the  National  Academy  of  Sciences  and 
the  National  Medical  Association,  among  others,  Leffall 
is  listed  in  American  Men  and  Women  of  Science,  and  Who's 


Greeley  Named  Vice  President  for  Reunions 


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aul  Greeley,  C'54,  has  been  named  to  the  newly  created  po- 
sition of  Associated  Alumni  vice  president  for  reunions. 
The  volunteer  position  will  work  to  strengthen  the  ties 
between  alumni  and  the  University,  says  Greeley. 

"From  an  alumni  perspective,  a  reunion  program  means  re- 
connecting with  classmates  and  Sewanee  in  more  meaningful 
way.  It  will  allow  for  greater  involvement  in  planning  events  and 
working  together  with  classmates  to  meet  defined  giving  goals 
and  provide  the  backdrop  for  a  more  rewarding  reunion,"  says  Greeley.  "For  the  Uni- 
versity it  means  greater  alumni  participation  and  increased  funding  for  its  programs. 
Sewanee's  goal  is  to  use  the  reunion  event  to  challenge  established  giving  patterns  of 
your  classmates,  both  in  terms  of  dollars  and  participation." 

Greeley,  a  manufacturer's  representative  from  Wilmington,  N.C.,  has  long  been  in- 
volved in  the  life  of  the  University,  serving  as  an  alumni  volunteer.  He  is  currently  on 
Sewanee's  Board  of  Trustees. 

The  first  reunion  events,  involving  the  classes  of  1963,  1968, 1973,  and  1988,  will  be 
held  in  the  fall  of  1 998,  according  to  Greeley.  He  and  University  staff  members  are  work- 
ing with  those  classes  to  create  a  positive  experience  in  Sewanee's  first  reunion  giving 
program. 

,  "Many  of  Sewanee's  peer  institutions  have  successful  reunion  giving  programs  which 
provide  us  with  a  good  precedent,"  says  Greeley.  "But,  just  as  Sewanee  is  unique, 
Sewanee's  reunion  giving  program  will  be  unique." 


Wlio  Among  Black  Americans.  Honors  he  has  received  in- 
clude Outstanding  Educator  in  America  in  both  1971  and 
1974;  he  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Governors  of 
LInited  Way  of  America. 

The  Rev.  Mark  S.  Anschutz  is  a  native  of  Carthage, 
Mo.,  who  grew  up  in  Washington,  D.C.  He  attended 
Drury  College  in  Springfield,  Mo.,  where  he  majored  in 
U.S.  history  and  was  president  of  his  senior  class. 
Anschutz  earned  a  master  of  sacred  theology  degree  from 

Berkeley  Divinity  School  at 
Yale  University  and  later  re- 
ceived a  doctor  of  ministry 
degree  from  Andover-New- 
ton  Theological  School 
near  Boston. 

Since  his  ordination, 
Anschutz  has  served  several 
parishes.  Currently,  he  is 
rector  at  St.  Michael  and  All 
Angels  Episcopal  Church  in 
Dallas.  Before  that  he  served 
as  rector  at  St.  James' 
Church  in  New  York  City 
and  as  rector  at  Christ 
Church  in  Alexandria,  Va., 
among  others. 

Anschutz  has  served  as 
a  member  of  the  Diocese  of  Virginia  Standing  Com- 
mittee, the  Commission  on  Alcoholism,  was  director 
of  the  Evangelical  Education  Society,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Governor's  Commission  on  the  Future  of 
Virginia. 

Williamson  Receives  Honorary  Degree 
from  Centre  College 

V  ice-Chancellor  Samuel  R.  Williamson  received  an 
honorary  degree  from  Centre  College  in  Danville, 
Ky,  during  June  commencement  ceremonies. 

Williamson,  who  was  the  baccalaureate  speaker,  told 
the  Centre  graduates:  "What  if  the  Class  of  1997  from 
Centre  College  took  a  corporate  vow  to  proceed  to  make 
the  Kingdom  of  God  come  on  earth,  for  each  person  to 
do  their  small  part,  to  resolve  to  come  together  in  25  years 
and  brag  not  of  material  exploits  or  fame  (though  there 
would  be  plenty  of  that)  but  how  you  had  made  a  differ- 
ence in  the  world. 

"I  urge  you  to  leave  this  place  with  passion  to  help 
others  as  you  further  your  own  career;  that  you  go 
with  a  commitment  to  help  the  world  that  needs 
your  help." 

Williamson  has  been  Sewanee's  vice-chancellor  since 
1988.  Prior  to  coming  to  Sewanee,  he  was  provost  at  the 
University  of  North  Carolina-Chapel  Hill  and  had  taught 
at  Harvard  University  and  the  U.S.  Military  Academy. 


to 


SEWANEE/AUGUST    1997 


ON       THE       MOUNTAIN 


Two  Professors  Retire  from  School  of  Theology 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  Holgate  DuBois  came  to 
Sewanee  10  years  ago,  fresh  from  serving  as  rector 
of  an  Episcopal  parish  in  southern  New  Jersey.  New 
to  the  teaching  profession,  the  professor  entered  the 
School  of  Theology  as  pastor  of  the  seminary  and  direc- 
tor of  the  field  education  program. 

But  eventually,  he  began  imparting  to  his  students 
what  he  had  himself  practiced  as  a  priest:  pastoral 
care — broadly,  the  nurture  of  the  church  and  the 
Christian  community.  It  was  a  natural  transition, 
and  a  good  fit,  DuBois  found. 

Trends  in  the  field  of  pastoral  care  in  the  past  20 
years  have  given  motivation  to  this  man  who  retired 
from  the  School  of  Theology  this  spring. 

"Even  the  narrow  definition  of  pastoral  theology 
is  undergoing  a  change  in  the  way  we  understand 
it,"  DuBois  said.  "There  is  a  renewed  interest  in  pas- 
toral care  as  advocacy,  and  a  concern  about  doing 
pastoral  care  in  a  post-establishment  church.  There 
are  positive  shifts.  It's  about  time." 

Another  major  trend  in  pastoral  care  during  his 
tenure  has  been  a  shift  from  individual  care  to  a 
broader  focus  on  the  Christian  community,  he  said. 

"Family  systems"  theories — caring  for  the  indi- 
vidual in  light  of  a  greater  whole — abound  these 
days.  Are-emphasis  on  the  baptismal  covenant  in  the 
Book  of  Common  Prayer  has  helped  fuel  this  change; 
the  concentration  enables  the  Christian  community 
to  focus  its  energies  on  the  day-to-day  health  of  the 
community,  rather  than  on  crisis  management  even 
though,  of  course,  the  latter  still  exists." 

"There  is  an  aspect  of  care  that  has  to  be  focused  on 
[Christian]  formation,"  he  said.  "Simply  visiting  hospi- 
tals and  shut-ins  has  become  a  narrow  view." 

Enter  the  community  of  faith,  which  includes  the 
parish  priest  but  is  not  limited  to  the  priest.  "There  is  a 
need  to  do  theology  contextually,  enabling  a  commu- 
nity to  do  it,  rather  than  just  the  priest." 

DuBois  leaves  behind  not  only  his  job  as  professor  of 
pastoral  theology,  but  his  job  as  associate  dean  of  stu- 
dent affairs.  He  said  he'll  miss  his  daily  interaction  with 
students  the  most.  His  wife,  meanwhile,  has  grand  plans 
for  her  husband's  retirement. 

"She  has  this  fantasy  that  we're  going  to  play  golf  to- 
gether," DuBois  said,  laughing.  "I  fully  expect  to  have 
structured  activity,  but  I've  got  one  thousand  different 
things  I'd  like  to  pursue." 

The  Rev.  Dr.  William  Hoover  Hethcock  came  to  his 
job  as  homiletics  professor  at  the  School  of  Theology 
through  a  back  door. 

In  1985,  after  Edna  Evans  retired  as  director  of  the 
field  education  program,  Hethcock  took  over  that  task 
full  time,  having  been  a  parish  priest  in  three  congrega- 
tions and  on  the  diocesan  staff  in  North  Carolina  and 


Ohio  prior  to  his  move  to  Sewanee  in  1979.  But  the 
Episcopal  priest  also  knew  that  Evans  had  been  helping 
homeletics  students,  helping  them  craft  and  hone  their 
sermons.  He  was  interested. 

"I  had  already  begun  working  with  preachers  in 
small  groups,"  said  Hethcock.  "I  enjoyed  talking  to 
people  about  how  they  communicated  the  gospel." 

He's  been  talking  to  students  about  that  ever  since,  but 
hung  up  his  professor's  hat  this  spring  after  turning  age  65. 

Every  weekday  morning  in  Hamilton  Hall,  master  of 


divinity  students  at  Sewanee  preach  sermons  that  bear 
the  mark  of  Hethcock's  handiwork.  They  are  not  his 
words,  of  course,  but  they  are  the  final  product  of  his 
criticisms  and  suggestions  for  improvement.  The  ser- 
mons are  then  videotaped  for  further  study. 

"Communicating  from  the  pulpit  is  very  difficult," 
he  said,  "and  doing  it  effectively  requires  work." 

Hethcock  had  the  opportunity  to  work  again  in  "the 
field"  in  1992,  when  he  spent  a  semester-long  sabbatical 
serving  as  a  priest  at  St.  Luke's  parish  in  North  Little 
Rock,  Arkansas.  He  preached  every  Sunday  and  de- 
scribed his  time  there  as  his  "greatest  moment  of  learn- 
ing." 

He  plans  to  keep  learning  post-retirement.  In  June 
of  1997,  he  served  on  staff  of  the  Preaching  Excellence 
Conference  at  General  Seminary  in  New  York.  He  said 
he  has  no  immediate  plans  for  retirement,  other  than 
enjoying  life  on  the  Domain  with  his  wife,  Phebe.  How- 
ever, the  Hethcocks  will  accompany  Sister  Lucy  Shetters 
of  the  Sisters  of  St.  Mary's  to  the  Philippines  this  fall. 

He  anticipates  missing  at  least  one  thing,  however. 

"I  will  miss  the  students — getting  to  know  them,  and 
listening  to  them  preach,"  he  said. 


Charles  DuBois,  left,  and 
William  Hethcock,  above, 
en  riched  the  School  of  Theol- 
ogy as  teachers  and  mentors. 


The  University  of  the  South 


Straight-talking  business  analyst  David  Johnson, 
C71,  cuts  through  the  jargon  to  make  news  about 
the  economy  interesting  and  enjoyable  for  millions 
of  Americans. 


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by  Robert  Bradford 


if'teen  minutes  before  the 
show,  David  Johnson, 
C'71,  is  making  his  last 
round  of  phone  calls.  He's 
on  the  line  with  a  source 
at  Smith  Barney. 

'The  Dow's  up  20? 
What's  the  latest  headline?" 
he  asks.  "What's  going  on 
with  this  tobacco  deal?  Do  you  hear 
about  any  talk  to  ban  nicotine  by  2009?" 
He  has  a  brief  discussion  with  the 
producer  at  WPLN,  Nashville's  public 
radio  station.  Johnson,  who  regularly 
reports  from  his  hometown  of  Dallas, 
Texas,  is  in  Nashville,  visiting  some  old 
Sewanee  friends.  "I'm  an  aggressive  'P' 
popper,"  he  tells  the  producer  at 
WPLN,  emphasizing  the  "p's"  to  make 
his  case.  "Finding  a  level  on  me  will 


pose  a  pretty  good  challenge." 

And  then  the  conversation  begins 
with  his  colleague  and  friend  David 
Brancaccio  at  Marketplace,  a  daily  business 
news  show  that  follows,  on  many  stations, 
NPR's  All  Things  Considered. 

During  their  regular  segment, 
Johnson  and  Brancaccio  talk  about  the 
week's  business  highlights.  There's  the 
usual  discussion  about  inflation  and  the 
ups  and  downs  of  the  market.  But 
Johnson  isn't  content  talking  about  the 
obvious. 

He  points  out  to  Brancaccio  that  this 
week  is  the  25th  anniversary  of 
Watergate.  "Let  me  give  you  an  Oliver 
Stone  theory,"  he  says.  "What  two  com- 
panies announced  disappointing  earn- 
ings this  week?  SeaGATE  and 
GATE  way.  You  get  it." 


"Oh  yeah,"  says  the  straight  man 
Brancaccio. 

In  his  su  earn  of  consciousness  style 
Johnson  moves  to  speculating  about  El 
Nino,  die  phenomenon  that  has  affected 
weather  patterns  across  the  country.  "I 
look  at  that  and  see  lots  of  stock  possibili- 
ties. It's  gotta  help  Kelloggs.  Everybody's 
going  to  get  rich  off  El  Nino." 

It's  classic  David  Johnson —  irrever- 
ent, funny,  and  quirky — terms  rarely 
used  to  describe  a  business  analyst.  But 
that's  what  makes  Johnson  one  of 
Marketplaces  most  popular  commenta- 
tors. And  that's  what  makes  Johnson 
the  most  sought  after  business  analyst 
in  Dallas,  where  he  has  a  minimum  of 
24  daily  radio  reports  and  a  television 
spot  four  days  a  week. 

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ketplace and  the  Dallas  media.  Each  time 
Johnson  goes  on  the  air,  he's  guided  by 
two  principles:  "How  does  this  affect  me? 
How  can  I  translate  this  into  English?" 

"This  is  a  dialogue  for  me,  a  conver- 
sation. I'm  trying  to  cut  through  the 
crap  and  explain  things  the  way  I  talk." 

More  classic  Johnson:  direct,  to  the 
point. 

He  has  carved  out  a  niche  for  him- 
self, and  people  across  the  country  look 
forward  to  his  wit  and  takes  on  business 
news.  But  when  you  listen  to  Johnson, 
you  need  to  know  something.  The  ana- 
lyst gig  is  just  a  part-time  job  for  him. 

For  the  past  25  years  he  has  been  a  full- 
time  broker  in  Dallas  for  Smith  Barney. 
He's  now  the  assistant  branch  manager, 
where  he  manages  a  portfolio  of  more 
tihan  $65  million  for  about  200  clients. 

How  does  he  pull  off  this  dual  role 
of  broker  and  media  star? 

"Eve  been  a  stockbroker  since  90 
days  after  I  walked  out  of  Sewanee.  On 
September  4, 1  will  have  spent  a  quarter 
of  a  century  working  for  the  same  firm. 
I  submit  to  you  that  any  normal  human 
being  will  go  absolutely  crazy,  no  mat- 
ter how  much  you  love  your  job,  doing 
the  same  stuff  for  25  years.  You've  got 
to  have  diversions." 

Johnson  began  his  diversion  into  the 
media  in  the  1970s.  He  started  doing 
pledge  breaks  for  KERA,  the  Dallas 


public  television  station.  KERA  produc- 
ers saw  that  Johnson  had  a  natural  af- 
finity for  television:  he  thought  well  on 
his  feet  and  he  spoke  in  terms  people 
understood.  They  invited  him  to  be 
part  of  a  local  weekly  news  show 
roundtable  discussion. 

That  spun  off  into  his  own  weekly 
show,  Business  Edition  with  David 
Johnson,  and  commentary  for  local  ra- 
dio and  television. 

"Texas  in  the  seventies  was  a  fascinat- 
ing time.  A  lot  of  people  who  didn't 
care  about  business  or  interest  rates  or 
the  economy  or  CDs  or  stocks  or  bonds 
had  to,"  says  Johnson.  "We  had  run- 
away inflation.  Gasoline  prices  were 
exploding.  Savings  were  eroding.  The 
economy  was  changing  so  quickly  that 
people  had  to  learn  things." 

In  the  1980s,  Johnson  was  doing 
regular  segments  for  the  ABC  televi- 
sion affiliate  in  Dallas  and  documenta- 
ries for  national  PBS. 

"I  did  two  programs  for  the  Eric 
Sevaried  show,  Enterprise.  The  first  one 
we  did  was  a  killer.  We  won  a  gold 
medal  at  the  New  York  film  festival  with 
it.  It  was  called  Tailspin.  We  went  inside 
Braniff,  this  big  colorful  flamboyant 
airline,  as  a  new  CEO  came  in  the  door 
and  watched  him  try  to  save  Braniff. 
And  he  couldn't.  It  ended  up  being  a 
tearjerker.  We  ended  with  a  camera 
thrust   through    the   sunroof  of  my 


Sewanee/August  1997 


Monte  Carlo  slowly  driving  by  the 
parked  727s,  and  the  Merle  Haggard 
song  'Silver  Wings'  is  playing  in  the 
background,"  says  Johnson. 

"The  best  thing  about  the  media 
side  for  me  is  that  I  get  to  go  meet  the 
personalities,  the  CEOS.  And  what  I've 
found  is  that  the  personalities  are  the 
company.  Flambloyant  CEOS  have 
flamboyant  companies.  Stick  in  the 
mud,  introverted,  retentive  CEOS  have 
companies  that  are  just  like  that." 

hat  better  van- 
tage point  to 
watch  this  than 
Dallas-Fort 
Worth.  Look  at 
the  characters 
down  there. 
Herb  Kelleher 
of  Southwest 
Airlines  is  a  very  close  friend;  I've  been 
covering  Herb  for  20  years.  The  first 
time  I  interviewed  Bob  Crandall  [now 
American  Airlines  CEO] ,  he  was  senior 
vice  president  for  marketing.  We've 
grown  up  together.  And  Norman 
Brinker,  the  guy  from  Chili's  and  the 
Macaroni  Grill,  he's  an  incredible  en- 
trepreneur." 

When  Johnson  isn't  interviewing 
CEOs  or  taking  care  of  his  clients  at 
Smith  Barney,  he's  preparing  for  sto- 
ries. An  admitted  news  junkie,  he  sub- 
scribes to  four  newspapers:  the  New 
York  Times,  the  Wall  Street  Journal,  USA 
Today,  and  the  Dallas  Morning  News. 

At  his  office,  he  has  close-cap- 
tioned  CNN  on  one  television,  CNBC 
on  the  other,  the  Dow  Jones  results 
scrolling  on  a  machine,  and  Internet 
headline  news  services  running  on 
his  computer. 

His  office  serves  two  functions;  it  is 
at  once  a  place  where  he  can  conduct 
business  and  it's  also  a  small  broad- 
cast studio.  In  the  corner,  out  of  the 
way,  is  a  television  camera.  He  has  six 
television  lights  in  the  ceiling,  and  he 


wears  a  headset  that  allows  him  to  an- 
swer the  phone  for  the  clients; 
there's  a  separate  telephone  line  in 
the  office  so  he  can  listen  to  his  pro- 
ducers when  he's  on  air. 

So  at  any  given  time  he  can  move,  at 
the  flip  of  a  switch,  from  talking  busi- 
ness with  his  clients  to  talking  about  the 
Fed  with  Brancaccio  or  explaining  the 
latest  turns  in  the  market  to  television 
viewers  in  Dallas. 

And  the  amazing  thing  is  that 
Johnson  does  it  all  without  scripts.  He's 
improvising  as  he  goes  along,  a  rarity 
among  television  or  radio  reporters. 

"Part  of  it  is  that  I'm  lazy,"  says 
Johnson.  "I  couldn't  put  together  6,500 
scripts  a  year  and  be  a  stockbroker  and 
be  a  father  and  be  a  husband  and  chair- 
man of  my  kids'  school.  And  I  want  to 
do  all  this  stuff.  So  the  way  you  do  it  is 
ad  lib  and  not  write  it  down." 

His  distinctive  style  of  business  analy- 
sis has  caught  the  ears  of  many  movers 
and  shakers  in  the  business  world. 
When  Bob  Crandall  sees  Johnson  at  a 
news  conference,  he  makes  it  a  point  to 
come  up  and  tell  him  how  much  he 
likes  his  work.  Johnson  was  granted  the 
first  interview  with  Herbert  Hunt,  a 
member  of  one  of  the  most  secretive 
families  in  Texas,  after  silver  prices 
crashed.  Hunt  wanted  to  see  the  ques- 
tions before  the  interview;  Johnson 
gave  him  80  questions. 

When  one  of  Johnson's  col- 
league's at  Marketplace,  John  Dims- 
dale,  was  trying  to  get  an  interview 
with  Alice  Rivlin,  who  was  then  with 
the  Clinton  administration  and  is 
now  with  the  Federal  Reserve, 
Rivlin  initially  told  him  she  didn't 
have  time  for  him. 

"I'm  with  Marketplace"  Dimsdale 
tells  her. 

'Oh  Marketplace.  I  listen  to  it  all  the 
time.  Sure,  I'll  talk  to  you,"  Rivlin  says. 
And  then  she  adds.  "Do  you  know 
David  Johnson?  What's  he  like?" 


The  best 
thing 

about  the  media 
side  for  me  is 
that  I  get  to 
go  meet  the 
personalities, 
the  CEOS.  And 
what  I've  found 
is  that  the 
personalities 
are  the  company. 
Flamboyant 
CEOS  have 
flamboyant 
companies. 
Stick  in  the  mud, 
introverted, 
retentive  CEOS 
have  companies 
that  are  just 
like  that 


The  University  of  the  South 


15 


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Is  the  press  compromising  its  integrity  by 
mixing  hard  news  with  sensational  stories? 


Jon  Meacham 
that  the  times  and 
require  no  less 


by  Jon  Meacham 

hortly  after  I  came  to 
wNewsiveek  a  few  years 
|ago — first  as  a  writer 
and  then  as  an  editor 
in  New  York — I  was 
Impending  Christmas 
■in  the  Mississippi 
■Delta.  I  was  feeling 
rather  proud  of  my- 
self: I  was  lucky  enough  to  be  work- 
ing at  a  national  magazine,  with  20 
million  weekly  readers — the  kind  of 
place  where  people  actually  returned 
your  phone  calls,  which  is  a  rarity  in 
journalism      unless      you're     John 


Kennedy  Jr.  or  Elizabeth  Vargas.  So  I 
was  in  a  happy  holiday  humor,  look- 
ing forward  to  the  coming  presiden- 
tial campaign,  when  a  sophisticated, 
well-read  woman — a  newsmagazine's 
target  audience — and  I  began  to  chat 
about  Newsweek,  and  the  news.  "You 
know,"  she  said,  as  we  pleasantly 
sipped  bourbon,  "I  read  Newsweek, 
and  I  find  the  things  in  it  so  ...  "  she 


paused;  I  awaited  extravagant  praise; 
she  concluded,  ".  .  .  well,  so  pedes- 
trian. " 

Suitably  (and  appropriately)  de- 
flated, I  thought:  Well,  we'll  show 
her.  Our  campaign  coverage  would 
be  the  stuff  of  high  drama,  the  last, 
great  test  of  the  World  War  II  gen- 
eration as  Bob  Dole  tried  to  take  the 
country   back   from    its   first   baby 


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boomer  president.  As  it  turned  out, 
though,  perhaps  the  most  memo- 
rable story  in  1996  was  Dick  Morris's 
paying  a  $220-an-hour  hooker  to  suck 
his  toes  in  a  $440-a-night  hotel  suite  in 
Washington.  (Don't  agree?  Quick: 
quote  one  line  from  a  Clinton-Dole 
debate.)  This  was  what  my  Mississippi 
critic  meant  by  "pedestrian:"  we  seem 
more  interested  in  sex  and  scandal 
than  in  substantive  matters  like  the 
future  of  Medicare.  But  unlike  most 
people — polls  rate  the  press  just  be- 
low politicians  in  public  esteem,  and 
the  national  consensus  is  that  we  are 
too  obsessed  with  conflict  and 
sleaze — I  don't  think  our  interest  in 
tabloid  news  is,  given  the  times,  neces- 
sarily a  bad  thing.  Without  the  cold 
war  we  have  the  leisure  to  indulge  in 
the  culture  wars:  Kelly  Flinn's  adul- 
tery; the  crack-up  of  the  younger 
Kennedys;  the  murder  of  JonBenet; 
Heaven's  Gate;  Andrew  Cunanan's 
killing  spree.  Sometimes  pedestrian 
pieces  are  the  most  intriguing,  and  a 
story  doesn't  have  to  be  important  to 
be  interesting. 

We  are  not  living,  after  all,  in  a 
time  of  epic  scope.  Most  of  the  great 
matters  of  the  century — the  cru- 
sades against  the  Great  Depression, 
Hitler,  communism  and  Jim  Crow — 
are  settled.  This  could,  of  course, 
change  at  any  moment.  A  derivatives 
deal  might  go  awry,  crashing  the 
market;  a  rogue  terrorist  might  fire 
a  missile  at  Manhattan;  entitlements 
could  collapse,  driving  up  taxes  and 
pitting  one  generation  against  an- 
other. But  for  now  the  1990s  are 
turning  out  to  be  rather  like  the 
1920s:  basically  prosperous  and 
peaceful.  Without  war  or  want  to 
worry  about,  the  public,  and  the 
press,  are  freer  to  pay  attention  to 
stories  that  would  go  largely 
unremarked  in  a  more  serious  time. 


lis  is  not  a  new  phe- 
iomenon.  In  the  1920s, 
the  country  we  now 
know  began  to  take 
shape.  First  came  the 
beginnings  of  cafe  soci- 
ety (essentially  the  deci- 
sion of  great  old  New 
York  families  like  the 
Astors  to  dine  out,  thereby  provoking 
attention  and  "mentions"  in  the  col- 
umns), which  in  turn  led  to  the  celeb- 
rity culture  that  is  still  with  us.  The  old 
rural  order  was  giving  way,  and  more 
and  more  families  who  had  long  lived 
on  farms  and  in  intimate  communi- 
ties were  moving  to  the  cities,  a  trend 
that  accelerated  during  the  Great 
Depression  as  agricultural  prices 
crashed.  This  shift  had  enormous  con- 
sequences for  the  press.  The  people 
leaving  the  countryside  were  giving  up 
networks  of  kith  and  kin  that  had 
once  formed  the  basis  of  daily  life. 
What  replaced  those  old  connections, 
that  familiar  agrarian  ethos?  Tabloid 
news,  on  the  radio  and  in  syndicated 
columns,  became  the  dominant  na- 
tional culture.  If  you  didn't  know  your 
neighbors  anymore,  it  didn't  matter; 
you  could  always  talk  about  what  Clark 
Gable  or  Hedy  Lamarr  was  up  to.  The 
Lindbergh  kidnapping  was  the  O.J.  of 
the  era.  The  architect  of  this  new 
America  was  Walter  Winchell,  whose 
blend  of  news  and  gossip  marked  the 
way  for  Edward  R.  Murrow  and  Larry 
King.  Winchell's  columns  and  broad- 
casts were  a  groundbreaking  mix  of 
high  and  low:  a  bouquet  for  President 
Roosevelt,  Winchell's  political  hero 
("If  I  had  an  Aladdin's  Lamp,"  the  col- 
umnist once  wrote,  "I'd  fix  matters  so 
that  FDR  never  even  caught  a  cold.") 
would  be  followed  by  an  item  about 
which  Hollywood  couple  was  "Reno- 
vating" (Winchellese  for  divorcing) .  It 
is  difficult  to  imagine  now  how  signifi- 


Sewanee/August  1997 


cant  Winchell  was  in  the  thirties,  for- 
ties and  fifties.  He  was  a  key  voice  in 
getting  a  recalcitrant  country  ready 
for  World  War  II,  and  President 
Eisenhower,  after  a  visit  with  Winchell 
in  the  White  House  family  quarters, 
called  the  columnist  "my  best  voice 
and  contact  with  the  people."  Ike  un- 
derstood a  key  lesson-that  the  rat-a-tat- 
tat  blend  of  celebrity  gossip  and  news 
nuggets  were  a  prosperous,  busy 
country's  new  pas- 
time. So  it  made 
sense  for  politi- 
cians to  court  a 
press  that  was  pack- 
aging, in  one 
broadcast  or  one 
column,  bulletins 
about  war,  peace, 
and  who  was 
"Adam-and-Eve- 
ing-It"  (the  great 
Winchell's  term  for 
romancing). 

Are  we  all  Win- 
chells  now?  Not  re- 
ally, though  you 
wouldn't  know  that 
if  all  you  did  was 

listen  to  press  critics.  The  most  signifi- 
cant voice  in  the  current  anti-media 
climate  belongs  to  James  Fallows,  the 
editor  of  U.S.  News  &  World  Report 
(and  a  Neivsiueek  competitor).  In  1995 
he  published  an  important  book 
called  Breaking  the  News:  How  the  Media 
Undermine  Democracy  in  which  he  made 
the  case  that  the  mainstream  press — 
especially  in  Washington — overem- 
phasizes conflict  at  the  expense  of  ex- 
plaining substantive  topics.  A  convinc- 
ing polemicist,  Fallows  has  the  vices  of 
his  virtues:  he  paints  with  too  broad  a 
brush.  There  is  no  one  monolithic 
"media" — this  is  a  world  that  includes 
everything  from  "The  McLaughlin 
Group"  to  "Congressional  Quarterly," 


the  New  York  Times  to  "Politically  Incor- 
rect." The  fin-de-siecle  press  is  a  big,  di- 
verse, loud,  sometimes  serious,  some- 
times frivolous  collection  of  wildly  dif- 
ferent institutions  trying  to  reach  dif- 
ferent slices  of  the  audience.  It  is,  in 
short,  a  very  American  phenomenon, 
a  raucous  marketplace  where  a  savvy 
consumer  can  find  just  about  any- 
thing he  might  want. 

I  think  that,  at  heart,  most  people 
like  our  current 
approach:  a  little 
scandal  here,  a 
dash  of  substance 
there.  They  prob- 
ably won't  admit 
it — in  sophisti- 
cated circles,  rel- 
ishing downmar- 
ket stories  is  a  se- 
cret, guilty  plea- 
sure, sort  of  like 
preferring  Crack- 
er Barrel  cheddar 
cheese  to  Brie. 
Certainly  there 
are  serious  prob- 
lems with  the  me- 
dia. In  elite  cir- 
cles, the  race  to  get  on  television  and 
reduce  complex  matters  to  simple, 
bite-sized  quips  often  gets  in  the  way 
of  doing  hard,  and  worthwhile,  re- 
porting. An  increasing  number  of 
media  superstars,  people  who  became 
famous  because  of  diligent  digging 
and  careful,  assiduous  writing,  are 
only  to  be  found  in  airports,  changing 
planes  to  make  speeches  to  trade 
groups,  or  in  the  very  low-rent  green 
rooms  of  the  ever-growing  number  of 
political  cable  shows.  Many  journalists 
make  a  lot  of  money  these  days,  too,  a 
fact  that,  while  probably  irreversible, 
alters  a  historic  dynamic.  Until 
roughly  the  1970s,  reporters  and  even 
editors  were  not  incredibly  well-paid, 


More  families 
who  had  long 
lived  on  farms 
were  moving  to 
the  cities,  leaving 
the  countryside 
and  giving  up 
networks  of  kith 
and  kin.  What 
replaced  those 
connections? 
Tabloid  news,  on 
the  radio  and  in 
syndicated 
columns.  The 
author  of  this 
new  America 
was  waiter 
Winchell. 

ILLUSTRATIONS  BY  KEN  MORRIS 


The  University  of  the  South 


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and  they  were  therefore  more  in  daily 
touch  with  the  concerns  and  prob- 
lems of  the  mainstream  of  the  country 
than  they  are  today.  The  men  who  cov- 
ered Roosevelt's  White  House,  for  in- 
stance, were  almost  universally  enthu- 
siastic supporters  of  the  New  Deal;  to- 
day network  and  newspaper  corre- 
spondents following  Clinton  are  more 
likely  to  be  worried  about  their  mu- 
tual funds  than  about  mass  move- 
ments. 

ut  if  you  want  to  un- 
derstand the  minu- 
tiae of  the  balanced 
mdget  deal,  or  of  the 
renovation  of  the  tax 
:ode,  or  of  NATO  ex- 
>ansion,  you  can  find 
all  out  with  very 
little  difficulty.  There 
is  in  fact  more  information  available 
than  ever  before,  more  means  of 
getting  the  barebones  of  a  story  and 
some  common-sense  (often  obvi- 
ous) analysis.  When  I  was  growing 
up  in  Chattanooga  in  the  seventies 
and  mid-eighties,  the  newsmaga- 
zines ( Time  and  Newsweek)  were  es- 
sential because,  aside  from  the 
three  traditional  network  broad- 
casts (all  on  at  the  same  hour) ,  they 
were  the  only  national  news  prod- 
ucts you  could  get  on  a  regular  ba- 
sis. Now  virtually  any  household  in 
virtually  any  decent-sized  city  in  the 
country  can  get — every  day — the 
New  York  Times,  the  Wall  Street  Jour- 
nal, USA  Today,  and  the  sundry  In- 
ternet wire  services. 

It  is,  when  you  step  back  and  think 
of  it,  an  extraordinary  array  of  op- 
tions. An  American  in  the  late  1990s 
in  most  places  can  begin  a  day  with 
the  three  network  morning  shows, 
read  two  excellent  (the  Times  and  the 
Journal)  papers  and  one  fair  one  ( USA 
Today),    stay   tuned    in    to    CNN    or 


MSNBC  all  day,  catch  Jennings  or 
Brokaw  or  Rather  during  cocktail 
hour  and  then,  early  the  next  week, 
read  major  magazines  like  the  New 
Yorker;  Newszueek,  or  Time  for  more  per- 
spective on  what  they've  heard  about. 
Excessively  high-minded  observ- 
ers— the  kind  of  people  who  drink 
coffees  you  can't  pronounce  and  love 
National  Public  Radio — often  argue 
that  this  volume  of  information  does 
not  translate  intffiwiatgqually  high  level 
of  thinking  and  seriousness  of  pur- 
pose. But  if  you  really  want  the  low- 
down  on  the  Medicare  Trust  Fund,  or 
the  future  of  Part  B,  you  can  get  it  any 
number  of  places,  including  the  ones 
that  self-styled  sophisticates  attack. 
What  I  think  is  going  on  in  the  cur- 
rent fad  of  intellectual  press-bashing  is 
that  people  are  failing  to  see  that  even 
if  JonBenet  Ramsey  is  on  the  cover  of 
Newsweek,  or  if  the  alleged  alien  land- 
ing at  Roswell,  N.M.,  is  on  Time's, 
there  are  still  pages  and  pages  of  sto- 
ries about  the  inner  workings  of  gov- 
ernment, the  fates  of  overseas  nations, 
and  the  future  of  the  Dow.  One  week 
last  summer,  for  example,  I  edited 
one  section  of  Newsweek  that  included 
a  long  piece  on  Fred  Thompson's  in- 
vestigation into  the  president's  for- 
eign fund  raising;  a  profile  of  the  Ma- 
rine general  who  is  forcing  a  rethink- 
ing of  cold  war  troop  structure;  a  col- 
umn examining  the  differences  be- 
tween the  White  House  and  the  Re- 
publican plans  to  cut  taxes;  and  a  re- 
ported essay  on  the  growing  number 
of  African  Americans  who  are  revers- 
ing the  Great  Migration  to  the  North 
that  began  in  1940  by  moving  back  to 
the  old  Confederacy.  Elsewhere  in  the 
magazine  you  could  have  read  about 
the  Mars  landing,  the  death  of  Jimmy 
Stewart,  Bill  Gates's  designs  on  CBS, 
global  warming  and  the  handover  of 
Hong  Kong.  A  few  weeks  before  we 


Sewanee/August  1997 


had  done  a  cover  on  the  new  genera- 
don  of  Kennedy  sex  scandals,  and  sev- 
eral long  packages  on  the  war  over 
adultery  in  the  ranks  of  the  military. 
And  in  each  of  those  issues,  too,  there 
was  a  breadth  of  smart,  well-executed 
and  often  original  pieces  on  What  Re- 
ally Matters,  from  welfare  reform  to 
social  security  to  the  trial  of  Tim 
McVeigh.  It's  that  way  week  in  and 
week  out. 

That  mix  is  iTes*-' 
accident.  If  you 
want  people  to  eat 
spinach — to  read 
about  Bill  Archer 
or  Erskine  Bowles — 
you've  got  to  give 
them  some  jelly 
doughnuts  to  go 
along  with  the  veg- 
etables. Of  course, 
if  we  go  to  war,  or 
if  the  market 
crashes,  leading  to 
a  serious  eco- 
nomic downturn, 
there  won't  be  as 
many  entertaining 
narratives  about 
interesting  murders:  in  my  experi- 
ence most  journalists  are,  at  heart, 
frustrated  historians  and  extremely  se- 
rious writers,  yearning  for  the  Big 
Story — a  Blitz,  a  civil-rights  move- 
ment, a  Watergate.  But  we  have  to 
make  do  with  what  the  gods  throw  our 
way,  and  at  the  moment  that  means 
blending  reports  on  genuine  environ- 
mental threats  and  the  precarious  po- 
sition of  entitlements  with  speculation 
about  whether  Frank  and  Kathie  Lee 
Gifford  can  put  their  marriage  back 
together. 

It  is,  to  be  sure,  a  tricky  balancing 
act.  Only  the  very  best  of  the  breed 
can  sustain  mixing  the  two  elements, 
blending  celebrity  and  crisis,  glitz  and 


gravitas.  Standards  can  never  be  low- 
ered: Paula  Jones  has  to  be  covered 
with  the  same  taste  that  we  use  when 
we  write  about  economic  summits  or 
the  rise  of  high  tech.  Without  keeping 
an  eye  on  the  franchise  of  hard  news, 
explicating  the  public  sphere  and  tell- 
ing the  stories  of  the  world's  current 
line-up  of  heroes  and  villains,  from 
Washington  to  Beijing  to  Brussels,  the 
mainstream  press  can  risk  living  up  to 
the  worst — and,  for 
now,  exaggerated — 
fears  of  the  critics. 
The  fate  of  the 
Stork  Club,  where 
Walter  Winchell  pre- 
sided and  which  he 
famously  promoted 
as  "the  New  York- 
iest  spot  in  New 
York,"  is  instructive. 
The  Stork,  once  the 
preeminent  night 
club  in  the  city, 
where  stars  and 
mobsters  and  ath- 
letes and  pols 
drank  champagne 
cocktails  and 
smoked  cigarettes  at  the  height  of  the 
American  Century,  is  gone  now.  To- 
day, on  the  same  spot  on  East  53rd 
Street  stands  a  tiny  park,  a  pocket  of 
quiet  in  midtown  Manhattan.  The 
center  of  Winchell's  world  is  demol- 
ished, forgotten.  The  lesson:  celebrity 
is  alluring,  but  leaving  something  be- 
hind is  the  hardest  part  of  all.  That  is 
a  lesson  we  understand  well. 


Jon  Meacham,  C91,  is  Newsweek's 
senior  editor  for  national  affairs.  A  former 
reporter for  the  Chattanooga  Times,  he  is 
also  a  contributing  editor  of  the  Washing- 
ton Monthly. 


I  think 
that,  at 
heart,  most 
people  like 
our  current 
approach:  a 
little  scandal 
here,  a  dash 
of  substance 
there.  They 
probably  won't 
admit  it — in 
sophisticated 
circles,  relishing 
downmarket 
stories  is  a 
secret,  guilty 
pleasure,  sort  of 
like  preferring 
Cracker  Barrel 
Cheddar  cheese 
to  Brie. 


The  University  of  the  South 


by  Joe  Romano 


Cindy  Smith,  C77,  shapes  the 
character  and  coverage  of  news  for 
one  of  Tennessee's  best  newspapers. 


lust  days  before  the 
^formal  handover  of 
t'Hong  Kong  from 
jjGreat  Britain  to 
China,  Cindy  Smith, 
|C'77,  was  planning 
fthe  Nashville  Tennes- 
sean  's  coverage  of 
that  histofTc~event  and  trying  to  put  the 
issue  in  context.  "I've  been  working  on 
this  for  three  months  and  I've  been 
reading  everything  I  can  on  Chinese 
history,  on  Mao,  and  the  Cultural  Revo- 
lution. I  want  to  be  as  familiar  with  the 
subject  as  I  can.  You  have  to  prepare  for 
your  stories  in  advance  and  that's  what 
I  really  love — spending  time  with  a 
story,  making  it  look  as  good  as  it  can 
and  making  it  read  as  good  as  it  can 


read  so  that  there  won't  be  any  ques- 
tions in  the  reader's  mind." 

When  Smith  first  signed  on  as  a 
sports  reporter  at  the  Tennessean,  she 
didn't  know  it,  but  she  had  found,  for 
her,  the  perfect  job.  Nearly  20  years 
later,  as  assistant  managing  editor  of 
the  state's  second  largest  daily,  Smith 
says  the  career  she  entered,  initially  be- 
cause she  wanted  to  write  about  race 
horses,  has  become  a  natural  extension 
of  her  interests  and  aptitudes. 

There  are  other  times  when  Smith 
doesn't  have  the  luxury  of  planning  for 
months  to  make  a  story  just  right  and 
she  has  just  hours  to  get  things  to- 
gether on  breaking  news.  In  earlyjune, 
after  a  three-month  investigation, 
Nashville  detectives  got  a  lucky  break 


on  a  series  of  murder-robberies  at  a 
number  of  middle  Tennessee  fast  food 
restaurants  that  left  seven  dead. 

"We  got  a  tip  at  8  o'clock  that  morn- 
ing, but  all  they  told  us  was  that  some- 
thing was  going  to  happen  'today'  My 
job  was  to  come  up  with  absolutely  any- 
thing I  could,  but  I  had  very  litde  infor- 
mation. So,  we  had  to  create  a  framework 
that  said  'if  this  happens,  then  that.'" 

Later  that  afternoon,  when  Nash- 
ville's police  chief  announced  that  an 
arrest  had  been  made,  there  were  only 
a  few  hours  left  before  the  paper's  first 
edition  deadline.  The  suspect,  it 
turned  out,  was  a  parolee  from  Texas. 
So,  in  addition  to  following  up  on  local 
angles,  Smith  had  to  send  a  reporter  to 
that  state  to  check  things  out  there, 


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too.  It  is  just  this  running  down  of  leads 
and  tips,  ensuring  that  every  fact  is 
checked  and  confirming  any  bit  of  in- 
formation before  it  is  printed,  that 
makes  Smith's  job  frustrating  at  times, 
but  they  are  tasks  she  relishes.  "You 
have  to  have  a  framework,  you  have  to 
have  a  plan,  these  things  don't  just  hap 
pen." 

Making  those  things  happen  smoothly 
is  exactly  what  Smith  has  discovered  she's 
good  at.  After  working 
the  spoils  side  of  the 
newsroom  for  a  dozen 
years,  she  learned  the 
newspaper  business 
from  the  ground  up. 
She  jokes  that  men-edi- 
tor John  Seigenthaler 
only  hired  her  as  a  favor 
to  her  family,  and  claims 
that  when  she  first 
signed  on  she  didn't 
even  know  how  to  type 
or  answer  the  phone. 

"I     was     lucky.     I 
started    working    on 


Smith  leads  a  planning  session  at  //^TVnnesscan 


the  copy  desk,  which  is  a  great  place  to 
start  because  you  learn  the  rules.  You 
learn  about  deadlines,  you  learn  about 
the  production  end  of  things.  Then,  I 
started  covering  high  schools  and  trav- 
eled all  over  the  state." 

With  this  experience  under  her  belt, 
Smith  moved  over  to  the  news  depart- 
ment as  city  editor.  Then,  almost  two 
years  ago,  she  was  promoted  to  assis- 
tant managing  editor  where  she 
quickly  applied  all  of  the  things  she 
had  learned  in  her  previous  positions. 

In  one  of  her  first  official  actions  as 
assistant  managing  editor,  Smith  cre- 
ated a  concept  that  changed  the  look 
and  the  readability  of  the  paper's 
front  page  and  special  sections.  "We 
take  the  story  of  the  day,  or  a  special 
project,  and  create  the  front  page 
around  that  instead  of  the  way  other 
newspapers  will  do  it,  which  is  to  start 
from  scratch  and  fill  in  things  that 
don't  necessarily  connect.  What  we're 
trying  for  is  an  integrated  page  where 
every  element  works  in  tandem  with 
every  other  element.  The  paper  looks 
inviting,  your  eyes  go  to  the  right 
place.  It  helps  the  reader  feel  comfort- 
able with  the  page." 

But  while  good-looking  layouts  are 
helpful,  they  don't  always  ensure  that  a 
paper  will  be  of  interest  to  readers. 
With  that  in  mind,  Smith  constantly 
strives  to  make  the  paper  a  mirror  of 
the  Nashville  community.  But  finding 
the  right  mix,  she  says,  is  always  a  bal- 
ancing act. 

"Every  day  is  like  that,  every  day  you're 
balancing  stories... we  certainly  get  a  lot 
of  criticism  from  people  who  say  we 
don't  cover  enough  world  news.  But,  we 
want  to  be  responsible,  we  want  to  play 
the  essential  news,  we  want  to  be  diverse, 
and  we  want  to  be,  without  a  doubt,  a 
mirror  of  our  community... where  you 
live  is  very  important  to  who  you  are. 
That's  why  our  role  as  the  community 


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watchdog  is  the  most  important  thing.  I 
want  to  know  if  someone  is  planning  to 
build  a  multi-screen  cinema  in  my 
neighborhood  and  what  it's  going  to  do 
to  the  traffic  in  the  area.  That's  being  a 
watchdog,  too;  it  doesn't  all  have  to  be 
bringing  Nixon  down. 

"If  it  touches  your  life,  if  it's  going  to 
change  your  life.  If  it's  going  to  make 
an  impact  in  your  life,  we  want  to  tell 
you  about  it.  We  want  to  keep  you  from 
being  hurt  or  ripped  off.  That  means 
everything  from  Paula  Jones  and  what 
effect  she's  going  to  have  on  the  presi- 
dency to  a  group  of  people  in  the  west 
part  of  the  county  who  showed  up  to 
protest  a  Wal-Mart.  And  they're  mad- 
der abotit  that  than  they  are  about 
Paula  Jones." 

As  she  moves  among  these  stories 
in  preparing  another  day's  paper, 
Smith  is  unlikely  to  leave  any  stone 
unturned,  a  fact  that  is  not  lost  on  her 
colleagues.  "She's  a  total  newsaholic, 
high  energy,  spitfire,  whirling  dervish 
of  a  manager,"  says  Brad  Schmitt,  who 
now  writes  the  Tennessean's  celebrity 
column  but  once  served  as  a  police 
reporter  under  then-city  editor  Smith. 
"She's  a  great  organizer  and  she  al- 
ways thinks  of  the  whole  package,  pho- 
tos, sidebars,  everything.  She  operates 
at  about  1,000  miles  an  hour  and  at 
about  100  decibels,  but  when  push 
comes  to  shove,  you're  always  going  to 
get  a  great  package." 

Smith  doesn't  always  operate  at 
"1 ,000  miles  an  hour,"  and  when  she  has 
the  time  she  enjoys  participating  in  the 
Tennessean's  mentoring  program.  She's 
quick  to  acknowledge  the  help  she  got 
from  her  mentor,  sports  writer  Jimmy 
Davy,  as  she  was  developing  in  the  busi- 
ness. Now  that  she  has  been  in  the  busi- 
ness nearly  20  years,  the  mentoring  pro- 
gram is  a  way  for  her  to  share  her  expe- 
rience with  others.  As  a  mentor,  she 
works  one-on-one  with  eight  different 


reporters,  ranging  from  the  newly  hired 
to  the  crafty  veterans,  in  an  effort  to  im- 
prove their  skills.  "We'll  talk  abotit  all 
sorts  of  things:  using  the  proper  tone  of 
voice,  what  kind  of  style  to  use,  how  to 
work  in  that  wonderful  nugget  of  a 
quote,  or,  how  to  write  about  a  victim's 
pain  without  getting  too  much  into 
their  privacy  but  still  telling  their  story.  I 
enjoy  that  very  much." 

omething  else  that 
Smith  really  enjoys,  an- 
other of  the  rewards  of 
her  craft,  is  knowing 
that  what  she  does  is 
making  a  difference  in 
her  community.  One 
of  the  stories  she  best 
remembers  was  that  of 
a  tragic  shooting  in  a  Nashville  el- 
ementary school.  A  youngster  who 
brought  a  gun  into  school  acciden- 
tally shot  and  killed  another  student 
as  the  class  was  watching  a  Disney 
movie.  That  story  and  the 
Tennessean's  follow  up,  says  Smith,  di- 
rectly led  to  the  creation  of  a 
"hotline"  telephone  number  in  Nash- 
ville that  youngsters  could  call  to  re- 
port classmates  who  bring  weapons 
to  school. 

That's  the  kind  of  story  she  finds 
most  interesting  to  pursue.  "Any- 
thing that  is  emotionally  compelling 
is  always  going  to  drive  me,"  says 
Smith.  "Anything  where  someone  has 
been  hurt,  a  child  has  been  hurt, 
people  have  lost  a  great  deal  of 
money,  the  sadness  in  people's  lives, 
poverty — these  are  the  things  that 
drive  me  over  and  above  everything 
else.  Sure,  that  may  be  what  people 
call  a  liberal  bias,  I  don't  know,  but  I 
think  it  is  a  caring  that  is  very  much  a 
part  of  me.  I  wouldn't  work  this  hard 
for  any  other  reason,  I  wouldn't  work 
this  hard  if  I  didn't  think  I  was  mak- 
ing a  difference." 


btttAritt 

AND    THE 


If  ifs  going  to 
make  an 

impact,  we  want 
to  tell  you  about 
it.  We  want  to 
keep  you  from 
being  hurt  or 
ripped  off. 
That  means 
everything  from 
Paula  Jones  and 
her  effect  on  the 
presidency  to 
people  in  the 
west  part  of  the 
county  who  pro- 
test a  Vital-Mart 


The  University  of  the  South 


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by  Larry  Dag  en  hart 


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n  a  cool,  dimly  lit  afternoon,  a  team  of  wind- 
breaker-clad  college  students  powers  a  long, 
,  skinny  boat  with  giant  oars.  The  boat  slices 
through  the  water  with  careful  precision.  From 
overhead,  the  craft  resembles  a  giant  eight-legged 
bug.  Only  a  half  mile  to  go.  The  rowers  are  exhausted,  but  they've 
trained  all  year  for  this.  Those  early  morning  practices  are  finally 
paying  oil.  Just  one  more  boat  to  pass. 

Who  are  these  dedicated  athletes?  A  crew  from  Harvard  or  Tufts 
racing  down  the  Charles  River? 

But  we're  not  in  Boston;  we're  on  Nickajack  Lake,  a  little  west  of 
Chattanooga.  And  those  rowers  are  from  Sewanee,  just  up  the  road. 
College  crew  in  Tennessee?  It's  happening  now  as  one  of  Sewanee 's 
newest  club  sports. 

When  Robert  Phillips,  C'98,  of  New  Orleans  visited  Sewanee  as 
a  prospective  student  in  1993,  he  was  a  senior  at  the  Salisbury 
School  in  Salisbury,  Conn.,  and  enjoyed  participating  in  crew,  an 
activity  he  never  pursued  before  attending  school  in  the  east.  On 


ing  his  first  year,  he  realized  he  had  been  misinformed. 

Phillips,  now  the  club  president,  wished  to  continue  lowing  in 
college.  Taking  action  in  the  spring  of '95,  he  sent  an  E-mail  mes- 
sage to  the  college  students  and  got  75  potential  rowers  to  attend 
an  organizational  meeting.  The  following  semester,  he.  organized 
another  meeting,  and  got  1  30  students  to  attend. 

With  the  increased  interest,  Phillips  and  the  group  received 
some  financial  backing  from  the  activity  fund  committee  and  some 
generous  parents.  A  used  boat  was-purchased  and  the  Sewanee 
crew  team  was  born.  The  club  received  its  charier  in  November 
1995.  Four  months  later,  the  team  participated  in  its  first  outdoor 
intercollegiate  event:  the  first  Coosa  Cup,  held  in  Rome,  Ca.,  at 
Berry  College,  which  was  beginning  its  sixth  season  of  crew.  Com- 
peting in  novice  division  races,  which  slated  only  rowers  in  their  first 
year  of  competition,  Sewanee  defeated  Berry  in  every  category.  Not 
bad  for  a  fust  race. 

Rowing  crew  is  not  for  the  faint  of  heart.  The  season  lasts  all 
year,  and  provides  the  athletes  with  grueling  practices.  This 


past  year,  about  a  dozen  Sewanee  students  rose  daily  for  5:30 
a.m.  workouts  on  nearby  Lake  Dimmick. 

The  crew  year  is  divided  into  distinct  fall  and  spring  seasons.  Fall 
events  are  known  as  head  races  while  spring  gatherings  are  called 
sprint  races.  In  head  races,  teams  navigate  three  miles  or  so  of  water, 
sometimes  around  bends  and  under  bridges.  The  crew  that  com- 
pletes the  course  in  the  shortest  amount  of  time  wins.  Sprints,  similar 
to  races  seen  in  the  Olympics,  are  2,000  meters  long  (straight)  widi 
the  course  four  to  six  lanes  wide.  These  races  last  anywhere  from  five 
to  eight  minutes,  depending  on  boat  class,  weather  conditions,  and 
the  physical  condition  and  experience  of  the  rowers. 

During  competition,  rowers  travel  backwards,  and  sit  on  seats 
equipped  with  wheels  which  slide  back  and  forth  on  a  track.  The 
rowers  generate  power  by  pulling  the  oars  toward  diem,  using  their 
well-conditioned  arms,  legs  and  backs.  In  crew,  teamwork  is  every- 
thing. All  strokes  must  be  synchronized.  One  rower  can  lose  a  race 
for  the  entire  crew  with  one  ill-timed  maneuver. 

To  help  with  precision  and  navigation,  boats  often  employ  a 
coxswain  (rhymes  with  'oxen'),  who  steers  the  boat  from  a  seal 
located  at  the  stern.  Sewanee's  crew  teams  usually  row  four  to  a 
boat  plus  a  coxswain. 

Although  crew  is  traditionally  popular  on  college  campuses  of  the 
eastern  seaboard,  the  sport  has  never  received  much  publicity  on  the 


)inni!>"  increasininy  po 


Sewanee  has  raced  crews  from  such  schools  as  Vanderbilt,  Clemson, 
Auburn,  and  Tennessee,  which  launched  a  women's  team  last  year. 

In  a  short  span  of  time,  Sewanee's  team  has  achieved  success. 
Stocked  with  40  rowers  this  past  spring,  the  team  competed  in  four 
races,  capped  oil  by  the  Southern  Intercollegiate  Rowing  Champion- 
ships, held  in  ( )ak  Ridge,  fenn.  Out  of  72  schools,  Sewanee  was  one 
of  the  many  teams  with  only  a  handful  of  rowers. '1 'he  men,  with  only 
two  boats  of  four  rowers  each,  finished  fifth  overall.  The  women,  with 
only  one  boat  of  lour  rowers,  finished  third.  Phillips,  the  only 
Sewanee  rower  with  r/z/yhigh  school  experience,  was  impressed. 

"It  was  amazing;  I  wasn't  expecting  to  gel  as  far  as  we  did  so 
quickly,"  he  said,  "but  with  a  team  as  committed  as  this  one  is,  I'm 


Sewanee 

ROWERS 

BRING  A 

TRADITIONALLY 

2IRTHERN 

SPORT 

TO  THE 

MOUNTAIN 


A  Sewanee  ropier  navigates  the  early 
morning  waters  of  nearby  Lake  Dimmiek. 


PHOTO  BY  WOODROW  BLETTEL 


SPORTS 


Women's  Tennis 


■ 


Mary  Missbach,  COO.. 
is  Sewanee's 

number-one  seed. 


For  the  eighth  time  in  Coach  Conchie  Shackelford's 
1 1-year  tenure  at  Sewanee,  the  women's  tennis  team 
advanced  to  the  NCAA  Division  III  Championships, 
held  this  year  in  Claremont,  Calif.  There  the  Tigers  won 
two  of  four  matches.  Sewanee  lost  to  Amherst  College 
3-6,  but  saw  some  success  in  the  backdraw.  Sewanee  beat 
Washington  University  (Mo.)  6-3,  and  after  a  5-4  loss  to 
Skidmore  College  (N.Y),  the  women  rebounded  to 
beat  the  University  of  California-San  Diego  for  the  first 
time  by  a  7-2  score. 

As  a  team,  the  Tigers  fin- 
ished the  year  18-8,  and  as 
the  llth-ranked  team  in  the 
nation. 

At     the     rain-soaked     SCAC 
Spring  Sports  Championships  held  in 
Georgetown.  Texas,  Sewanee  was  declared 
1997    co-champion    with    Trinity    University. 
Amidst    the    rain    delays,    the    women    defeated 
Hendrix  College  9-0  and  Rhodes  College  5-2  to  ad- 
vance to  the  finals. 

The  women  were  to  play  Trinity  for  the  league 
title,    but    by    the    time    the    weather    improved, 
Sewanee's  players  were  due  at  the  airport  for  the 
plane  ride  home.  Trinity  representatives  elected  not  to 
iccept  an  outright  conference  championship  by  de- 
fault. 

Since  many  players  throughout  the  league  played 
only  one  match,  the  SCAC  selected  no  all-conference 
team. 

Lee  Williams,  C'97,  and  Elizabeth  Irwin,  C'97,  who 
have  competed  in  the  NCAA  Championships  each  of 
their  four  years,  completed  outstanding  college  careers. 
Other  players  rounding  out  the  top  seven  were: 
Mary  Missbach,  COO,  Jenny  Coleman,  C'99, 
Katherine  Crook,  COO,  Kathryn  Pender,  COO,  and 
Natalie  Wallace,  COO. 

Men's  Tennis 

Like  the  women,  the  men  were  also  declared  SCAC 
co-champion  with  Trinity.  Sewanee  got  past  Centre 
College  7-0  and  Rhodes  College  5-2  to  advance  to 
the  conference  championship. 

During  the  regular  season,  the  men  enjoyed  a  14-8 
season  under  12th-year  head  coach  John  Shackelford. 
The  Tigers  earned  a  spot  in  the  NCAA  Championship, 
but  were  eliminated  in  their  first  match  of  the  regional 
round,  a  7-0  loss  to  Emory  University. 

For  spring  break,  the  men  once  again  traveled  to 
I  lilton  Head,  S.C.,  and  defeated  some  national  competi- 
tion: the  College  of  Wooster  (5-2) ,  Wheaton  College  (6-1 ) , 
Hope  College  (6-1),  and  St.  Lawrence  University  (4-3). 


The  season  marked  the  last  for  Wes  Talman  C97,  the 
squad's  only  senior.  The  rest  of  the  top  seven  included: 
Shep  Smith  C98,  Court  Michau  C'98,  Jarret  Michau 
COO,  Clifton  Clyborne  C'99  and  Stephen  Fulton  C'98. 

Baseball 

Bright  spots  in  the  Tigers  '97  baseball  season  were 
not  found  in  the  win  column.  Only  in  its  22nd  out- 
ing of  the  spring  did  the  young  squad  pick  up  its 
first  victory,  en  route  to  a  2-30  record. 

Greg  Scott  C'99  and  Tripp  Vickers  C'99  provided  a 
good  portion  of  the  offense,  and  both  were  named  to 
the  All-SCAC  team  for  the  second  year  in  a  row. 


Men's  Golf 


Due  to  continuous  inclement  weather  at  the  SCAC 
Spring  Sports  Championships  in   Georgetown, 
Texas,  no  1997  champion  was  crowned.  Subse- 
quently, there  was  no  all-conference  team. 

The  team  played 
in  six  events  this 
spring,  including 
three  dual  matches. 
Sewanee  defeat- 
ed Rhodes  by  10 
strokes  on  March  22, 
and  beat  Martin 
Methodist  by  15 
strokes  on  April  7. 

Sewanee  was  led 
by  Tee  Stribling, 
COO,  and  Ken  Ton- 
ning,  COO.  Both 
posted  respective  av- 
erages of  79.3  and 
79.5  strokes  per 
round.  Both  had  a 
season-best  round  of 
75. 

Rounding      out 
the  team's  top  five      Ken  Tonning,  COO,  putts  for  par. 
were    Jake     Roth- 
well,  C00,  Jack  O'Neil,  COO,  and  Cliff  Athey,  COO. 

Women's  Golf 

The  women  participated  in  five  events  this  spring,  in- 
cluding three  dual  matches.  In  the  final  match  of 
the  season,  Sewanee  beat  Rhodes  by  one  stroke, 
avenging  a  nine-stroke  loss  to  the  Lynx  five  days  earlier. 
Rachel  Robinson,  C'98,  and  Lonsdale  Green,  COO, 
were  the  top  players.  Robinson  averaged  103.1  strokes 
per  round  for  the  season  with  a  best  score  of  91.  Green 


Sewanee/August  1997 


SPORTS 


averaged  103.9  strokes  per  round  with  a  best  round  of 
95. 

Other  players  included   Kim  Harvin   C'97,   Page 
Scully  C'98,  Amy  Shavers  C'99  and  Kelli  Black  COO. 


Men's  Track 


Women's  Track 


Coach  Cliff  Alton's  women  finished  fourth  as  Trin- 
ity was  once  again  first.  In  the  wind  and  rain  in 
Texas,  four  Sewanee  women  finished  in  the  top 
three  of  particular  events,  earning  All-SCAC  honors. 
Heather  Stone,  COO,  earned  many  points  for  the  Tigers 
as  she  finished  first  in  the  800  meters  and  in  the  1,500 
meters.  She 
was  also  third 
in  the  400- 
meter  hurdles. 
Abby     Howell, 

C'99,  was  third  -    ^^\  ^^H    ; 

in  die  3,000  me- 
ters ;  Kari  Pal- 
mintier,  C'99, 
was  third  in  the 
10,000  me- 
ters; Marie 
Schroder,  COO, 
placed  third  in 
the  high  jump. 
Notably,  fol- 
lowing the  sea- 
son, Abi  White, 
C97,  of  Ft. 
Benning,  Ga. 
earned  her  1 2th  varsity  letter  of  her  college  career.  White 
was  a  four-year  athlete  in  not  only  track,  but  also  in  cross 
country  and  swimming. 


4   -*m 

Kari  Palmintier,  C'99,  grinds  out  a  I  OK. 


At  the  SCAC  Spring 
Sports  Champi- 
onships,    Sewa- 
nee finished  fourth 
as  the  Trinity  men 
took  first  place  hon- 
ors.  Coach   Al   Lo- 
gan had  several  men 
finish  in  the  top  three  of  thei 
events   to   earn   all-conference 
honors.  Highlights  included  a 
strong   performance   by  Jason 
Hamilton,    C99,    who    placed 
third  in  the  triple  jump;  he  was 
also  fifth  in  both  the  100-meter 
dash  and  the  200-meter  dash. 
Other  All-SCAC  athletes  were 
Jeb  Bridges,  C'97,  who  placed 
second    in    the    800,    Antonio 
Crook,  COO,  with  a  third  place 
throw  in  the  shot  put,  and  Josh  Imbert,  C'97 
placed  second  in  the  discus. 


who     Jason  Hamilton,  C'99,  is 
one  of  Sewanee's  top 
sprinters.  • 


Equestrian 


1997  SEWANEE  FOOTBALL  SCHEDULE 


DATE        OPPONENT  SITE 


Sept.  6 

Hampden-Sydney 

Hampden-Sydney,  Va. 

Sept  13 

Rose-Hulman 

Terre  Haute,  Ind. 

Sept.  20 

Davidson 

Davidson,  N.C. 

Sept.  27 

Maryville  (Tenn.) 

Sewanee 

Oct  4 

CENTRE  * 

Sewanee 

Oct  11 

Open 

Oct.  18 

RHODES 

Memphis,  Tenn. 

Oct.  25 

Washington  Si  Lee 

•    Sewanee 

Nov.  1 

MILLSAPS 

Jackson,  Miss. 

Nov.  8 

TRINITY 

Sewanee 

All  times  loca 

SCAC  games 

in  CAPS         *  Parents' 

On  April  13,  selected  students  competed  at  the 
IHSA  Zone  V  Horse  Show  at  Wesleyan  College  in 
Macon,  Ga.  Katherine  Davis,  C'97,  placed  fourth 
in  open  over  fences;  Amanda  Smart,  C99,  placed  fifth 
in  both  intermediate  flat  and  over  fences;  Jennifer 
Raffetto,  COO,  was  sixth  in  intermediate  over  fences; 
Catherine  Olah,  COO,  was  second  in  walk-trot,  qualify- 
ing her  for  nationals. 

The  team  finished  up  as  reserve  champions  behind 
the  College  of  Charles- 
ton. 

On  May  3-4,  the  follow- 
ing students  represented 
Sewanee  at  the  IHSA  Na- 
tional Horse  Show  at 
Mount  Holyoke  College 
in  Holyoke,  Mass.;  Davis 
in  open  flat  and  fences, 
Molly  Schneider,  C99,  in 
intermediate  fences,  Raf- 
fetto in  intermediate  fiat, 
Rebecca  Taylor,  C'98, 
in  novice  fences,  Annie 
Kulungowski,  COO,  in  nov- 
ice flat,  Bridget  McNeese, 
COO,  in  walk  trot  canter, 
and  Mavora  Monk,  COO, 
in  walk  trot. 


1:00  p.m.  EOT 
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The  University  of  the  South 


^ 


THEOLOGIA 


The  consensus  is 
that  Philadelphia 
was  certainly  the 
most  positive,  most 
harmonious,  most 
helpful  general 
Convention  in  the 
decade  of  the  '90s. 


A  Special  Evening  in  Philadelphia 


Well,  General  Convention  has,  like  our  seemingly 
ever  shorter  summers,  come  and  gone.  Few  sur- 
prises troubled  the  City  of  Brotherly  Love.  Legis- 
lation generally  maintained  the  status  quo.  The  election 
of  a  new  presiding  bishop  exposed  the  ideological  divi- 
sion of  the  church.  We  overwhelmingly  passed  the  Con- 
cordat with  the  Lutherans,  only  to  see  it  narrowly  de- 
feated by  them  in  August.  But,  at  the  end,  the  Episcopal 
Church  had  survived  the  predictions  of  Doomsday,  and 
may  even  be  a  tad  more  efficient  for  and  committed  to 
our  mission. 

Of  course  some  came  away  disappointed,  even  angry, 
that  a  particular  proposal  passed  or  failed  to  be 
adopted.  Major  and  contentious  issues  remain  before 
the  church,  demanding  prayer,*' study,  and  respectful 
discourse.  We  all  await  more  indications  of  the  vision 
and  leadership  style  of  Bishop  Griswold — and  we  pray 
for  his  success  in  his  crucial  new  calling. 

But  the  consensus  is  that  Philadelphia  was  certainly 
the  most  positive,  most  harmonious,  most  helpful  Gen- 
eral Convention  in  the  decade  of  the  '90s.  As  I  ex- 
pressed in  Sewanee last  quarter,  it  was  a  great  "gathering 
of  the  clan."  the  extended  family  with  all  its  rivalries, 
conflicts,  and  deep  love  and  affection  for  one  another. 
In  the  exhibition  hall,  booths  of  diametrically  opposed 
groups  were  sometimes  set  up  next  to  each  other.  Over 
the  two  weeks,  embarrassment  and  distance  were  often 
overcome  by  familiarity  and  face-to-face  conversations. 
Minds  may  not  have  been  changed,  but  hearts  seemed 
less  estranged  in  the  process. 

Sewanee  mounted  an  even  more  enviable  presence 
than  usual.  A  large  number  of  deputies  and  bishops  had 
direct  Sewanee  connections.  The  vice-chancellor  spoke 
impressively  to  the  House  of  Bishops,  the  House  of 
Deputies,  and  the  Triennium  on  Episcopal  higher  edu- 
cation. The  arches  of  the  University  booth  soared  with 
wonderously  fresh  new  pictures  of  life  in  the  College 
and  Seminary.  For  the  first  time,  the  Programs  Center 
had  its  own  substantial  booth  to  celebrate  EFM,  DOCC, 
the  Church  Development  Institute,  the  Center  for  Min- 
istry in  Small  Churches,  and  our  rich  offerings  in  Con- 
tinuing Education.  A  continuous  flow  of  alumni/ae,  stu- 
dents, friends,  participants,  and  many  others  conversed 
with  a  dozen  or  so  Sewanee  staff  members  who  put  in 
long,  but  rewarding,  hours.  We  all  felt  a  real  sense  of 
achievement  from  the  interest  and  words  of  praise  and 
thanks  people  so  abundantly  offered. 

Perhaps  the  highlight  was  the  Sewanee  dinner  on 


Saturday  night.  It  was  one  of  the  largest  gatherings  at 
the  Convention.  Owning  bishops,  seminary  and  college 
alums,  EFM  and  DOCC  folks,  spouses,  and — signifi- 
cantly— many  with  no  official  connection  to  Sewanee 
who  approve  and  support  what  we  are  trying  to  do  and 
wanted  to  celebrate  with  us.  It  was  a  joyous  occasion  to 
be  with  old  friends,  to  heal  a  few  misunderstandings 
and  animosities,  to  share  hopes  for  the  future. 

Our  new  chancellor,  Bishop  Don  Wimberly,  presided 
with  grace  and  wit.  Chaplain  Tom  Ward  focused  us  in  a 
prayer  of  thanksgiving  and  commitment.  Vice-Chancel- 
lor Williamson  and  I  spoke,  and  we  were  both  greatly 
moved  by  the  affirmation  we  received. 

The  climax  of  the  evening  was  a  resolution  pre- 
sented by  Chancellor  Wimberly  and  Vice-Chancellor 
Williamson  to  retiring  Presiding  Bishop  Edmund 
Browning,  C'52,  T'54,  H'70,  the  third  consecutive 
Sewanee  PB  (following  Bishop  John  Hines,  C'30,  H'46), 
whose  death  during  Convention  brought  much  sadness, 
as  well  as  great  memories;  and  Bishop  John  Allin,  C'43, 
T45,  H'62) .  Bishop  Browning,  who  was  accompanied  by 
his  wife,  Patti,  and  their  family,  asked  to  say  a  few  words 
about  Sewanee.  His  warm,  funny,  insightful,  self-depre- 
cating, loving  memories  of  Sewanee  past,  along  with  his 
supportive  comments  about  the  vision  and  direction  of 
Sewanee  present,  brought  the  response  of  a  third  stand- 
ing ovation.  This  was  all  the  more  poignant  because 
probably  a  majority  of  those  present  considered  them- 
selves opposed  or  at  least  doubtful  about  many  of 
Bishop  Browning's  opinions  and  actions.  But,  on  that 
night,  we  came  together  in  the  sure  foundations  of  the 
Baptismal  Covenant  and  this  special  Mountain,  not  to 
cease  debating  what  God  wills  for  our  lives  and  our 
church,  but  to  understand  and  express  the  spirit  and 
the  relationships  which  must  form  the  context  of  those 
debates  if  we  have  any  hope  of  modeling  Christ's 
Church  in  the  world. 

We  left  Philadelphia  exhausted,  but  optimistic  that  a 
healthier,  more  dynamic,  more  faithfully  Christian  Epis- 
copal Church  would  gather  in  Denver  in  the  year  of  the 
millennium.  Sewanee  will  continue  to  try  to  make  its 
contributions  to  that  future  and  to  find  a  way  to  make 
Bishop  Griswold  part  of  the  Sewanee  family. 


-The  Very  Rev'd  Dr  Guy  Fitch  Lytle  III,  Dean 


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'49 


Mr.  John  P.  Guerry 
1000  West  Brow  Road 
Lookout  Mountain,  TN 
37350 

Walter  D.  Bryant  Jr.  married 

Blanche  Mai  tin  on  March  13, 
1997.  They  live  in  Augusta,  Ga. 


50 


Mr.  Richard  Doss 
5555  Del  Monte,  #2304 
Houston,  TX  77056 

Austin  Sperry  HI  moved  from 
Winter  Park,  Fla.,  to  Knoxville, 
Tenn.  He  is  retired  and  enjoy- 
ing living  near  grandchildren. 
For  the  past  10  years,  he  was 
on  the  staff  of  St.  Michael's 
Church,  Orlando,  Fla.,  as  fi- 
nancial secretary. 


'53 


Mr.  R.  Holt  Hogan 
P.O.  Box  656 
Keysville.VA  23947 

A.  Michael  Pardue  recently 
married.  His  spouse's  name 
is  Lilavati  Pardue. 


'60 


Mr.  Howard  W.  Harrison  Jr. 
435  Spring  Mill  Road 
Villanova,  PA  19085 

H.  Frederick  Brown  Jr.  re- 
tired from  the  practice  of  law 
after  25  years  in  personal 
injury  trial  law.  He  attended 
seminary  at  night  in  Houston 
while  practicing  law,  earning 
an  M.Div  in  1992,  and  stud- 
ied an  additional  year  in 
Berkeley,  Calif.  He  was  or- 
dained to  the  Episcopal 
priesthood  on  Jan.  18,  1997, 
in  Marshall,  Texas.  In  addi- 
tion, he  continues  to  enjoy 
running  and  completed  his 
12th  marathon  last  year. 


'61 


Mr.  Robert  Rust 
4461  Kohler  Drive 
Allentown,  PA  18103-6029 

Bob  Schneider  is  one  of  97 

instructors  worldwide  to 
qualify  for  a  $10,000  award 
from  the  John  Templeton 
Foundation  Science  and 


Religion  Course  Program  for 
developing  and  teaching  a 
course  joining  science  and 
religion.  He  is  a  foreign 
languages  professor  at  Berea 
College  in  Kentucky,  and  he 
has  designed  a  course  titled 
"Science  and  Faith." 


64 


Mr.  Jack  A.  Roysterjr.,  USAF 

Ret. 

1880  Shellbrook  Drive 

Huntsville,  AL  35806 

Joe  Winkelman  exhibited  his 
art  at  the  John  Callahan  Gal- 
lery in  Boston,  Mass.,  May  15- 
June  7,  1997.  His  work  will 
remain  in  stock  there  and 
can  be  shown  by  request. 


'69 


Mr.  Dennis  M.  Hall 

2919  Momington  Drive,  NW 

Atlanta,  GA  30327 

Don  F.  Cameron  is  anatomy 
and  surgery  professor  at  the 
University  of  South  Florida 
College  of  Medicine.  Re- 
cently he  was  appointed  a 
founding  faculty  member  of 
USF  Health  Sciences  Center's 
Neuroscience  Program,  and  is 
founding  scientist  of 
Theracell,  Inc.,  a  biotech 
company  to  develop  cell 
transportation  therapies  for 
Parkinson's  and  Huntington 
diseases.  He  and  his  wife, 
Betsy,  live  in  Lutz,  Fla.  They 
have  two  daughters, 
Katherine  (C'98)  and  Sara 
(C'99).  Todd  Georgi  recently 
was  named  1997  James 
Bruning-Student  Congress 
Outstanding  Teacher  of  the 
Year  at  Doane  College  in 
Crete,  Neb.  A  professor  of 
biology,  he  has  done  exten- 
sive research  in  the  compari- 
son of  the  Chinese  and 
American  paddlefish,  is  re- 
view editor  for  The  Sturgeon 
Quarterly,  editor  of  the  fourth 
edition  of  the  Horvady  Hand- 
book of  Cartridge  Reloading,  and 
an  avid  photographer  and 
hunter.  He  and  his  wife, 
Mary,  live  east  of  Crete. 


'76 


Mr.  Richard  Dew 

4325  East  Ball  Camp  Pike 

Knoxville,  TN  37921 


Marian  McClure  has  been 
named  the  director  of  the 
Worldwide  Ministries  Division 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
(U.S.A.)   Richard  Simmons 
IU  has  assumed  the  position 
of  regional  coordinator  for 
the  Alabama/Georgia  region 
of  Hilb,  Rogal  and  Hamilton 
Company,  the  ninth  largest 
insurance  agency  in  the 
United  States.  Julie  Sinclair 
was  installed  as  1997-98  presi- 
dent of  the  Alabama  Federa- 
tion of  Business  and 
Professional  Women  on  May 
30,  1997,  in  Sheffield,  Ala. 


'78 


Mr.  R.  Phillip  Carpenter 
1465  Northlake  Drive 
Jackson,  MS  3921 1-2138 

Allen  Ehmling  was  honored 
by  Agape,  the  Church  of 
Christ  adoption  agency,  on 
April  12,  1997,  at  David 
Lipscomb  University  in  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.,  for  15  years  of 
free  legal  service  to  the 
agency.  He  was  Agape's  1997 
nominee  for  the  Mary 
Katherine  Strobel  award. 
Allen  is  a  partner  in  the  firm 
of  McClellan,  Powers, 
Ehmling  and  Dix,  located  in 
Gallatin  and  Murfreesboro, 
Tenn.  Sandra  Mitchell  was 
promoted  recently  to  division 
chair  of  math  and  science 
and  assistant  professor  of 
biology  and  philosophy  at 
Western  Wyoming  College. 
She  lives  in  Rock  Springs, 
Wyo.  Lois  Woodward  re- 
cently became  a  partner  at 
Balch  &  Bingham  law  firm  in 
Birmingham,  Ala.  She  prac- 


tices primarily  in  the  area  of 
consumer  finance  law,  repre- 
senting lenders  in  consumer 
finance  transactions  and 
advising  clients  with  regard 
to  federal  and  state  con- 
sumer finance  laws. 


'79 


Ms.  Rebecca  Sims 

Box  9699,  Highway  158W 

Ambrose,  GA  31512 

Richard  Aguilar  lives  in 
Seguin,  Texas,  with  his  wife, 
Janet,  and  daughter, 
Michelle.    He  is  rector  of  St. 
Andrew's  Episcopal  Church, 
an  EFM  trainer,  and  was  a 
deputy  for  the  1997  General 
Convention.   Diann  Blakely, 
who  previously  published  as 
Diann  Blakely  Shoaf,  has 
works  appearing  in  numer- 
ous publications,  including 
Denver  Quarterly,  Harvard 
Magazine,  The  Southern  Review, 
Ploughshares,  and  The  Yale 
Review.  Currently  she  serves 
as  a  poetry  editor  of  Antioch 
Revieui,  and  will  sei~ve  next 
year  as  the  Harpeth  Hall 
School's  writer-in-residence. 
Linda  Todd  Buikoma  lives 
south  of  London  with  her 
husband,  Todd,  and  two 
sons,  Lindsey  and  Will.  She 
volunteers  at  the  American 
Community  School  and  for 
the  American  Women  of 
Berkshire-Surrey.   George 
Clarke  is  vice-president  of 
Galbreath  Insurance  Agency, 
Inc.,  in  Memphis,  Tenn.  He 
is  on  the  University's  Board 
of  Trustees  from  the  Diocese 
of  West  Tennessee.  Paul 


Classmates  Sam 
Pickering,  C'63, 
left,  and  Robert 
Brown,  C'63, 
met  in  Conway, 
Ark.,  (hiring a 
conference  on 
autobiographies. 
Pickering,  an 
Engish  professor 
anil  writer,  read 
pout  a  book  of 
his  essays.  Brown 
serves  on  the 
Supreme  Court  oj 
Arkansas. 


The  University  of  the  South 


31 


CLASS'. NOTES 


Rallying  the  Troops 

BY  JIM     B  R  A  T  T  O  N  ,     C  ' 

President  of  the  Associated  Alumni 


I 


n  August,  we  look  forward  to  the  Annua]  Meeting  of 
the  Alumni  Council,  and,  just  beyond  that,  to  the 
opening  of  the  academic  year. 

The  Alumni  Council  provides  the  most  comprehensive  opportunity  we  have  to 
assemble,  in  one  place  on  the  Mountain,  all  the  alumni  volunteers  who  coordinate 
the  Associated  Alumni's  work  on  behalf  of  Sewanee. 

We  are  looking  for  a  good  turnout  this  year,  and  we  anticipate  making  plans 
that  will  help  to  carry  us  into  the  21st  Century.  It  is  not  without  significance,  I 
think,  that  this  fall's  entering  class — a  splendid  collection  of  young  men  and 
women — will  be  the  first  to  graduate  in  the  21st  Century.  (Note  that  centuries,  like 
decades,  and  like  the  numbering  of  the  Christian  Era  — or  for  the  politically  cor- 
rect, the  "Common  Era" — begin  with  a  "1"  and  end  with  a  "0,"  according  to  our 
understanding.)  >, 

The  University  boasts  many  accomplishments  over  the  past  few  years  that  posi- 
tion it  well  for  transition  into  the  next  century.  It  is  not  unfair,  I  think,  for  the 
alumni  to  try  to  claim  some  credit  for  some  of  those  accomplishments,  and,  I  be- 
lieve, as  alumni,  we  are  resolving  to  do  more,  and  do  it  more  effectively,  in  the  fu- 
ture. 

The  success  of  The  Campaign  for  Sewanee  appears  to  be  a  certainty,  and  reach- 
ing those  heights  should  be  widely  recognized  as  an  outstanding  accomplishment 
for  this  University,  as  well  as  providing  a  solid  platform  upon  which  further  suc- 
cesses will  be  built. 

From  the  standpoint  of  alumni,  the  Alumni  House  continues  to  grow  in  signifi- 
cance for  the  entire  University,  as  well  as  the  alumni  constituency.  We  have  some- 
thing real  and  tangible  that  we  can  (almost)  call  our  own. 

In  a  somewhat  analogous  vein,  the  alumni  are  cheering  the  move  of  the  Office 
of  Career  Services  to  its  own  free-standing  establishment  as  a  neighbor  of  the 
Alumni  House.  With  that  office's  enhanced  program  of  services  to  alumni,  and 
with  the  creation  of  an  alumni-oriented  database  (thanks  in  no  small  part  to  a  lot 
of  hard  work  by  Laurie  Jarrett  Rogers,  C'85,  our  vice  president  for  career  services 
and  the  volunteers  working  with  her,  plus  the  indispensable  and  enthusiastic  help 
of  the  career  services  staff) ,  our  alumni  will  have  a  "state  of  the  art"  program 
stretching  across  all  areas  of  career  service  opportunities. 

Like  any  other  institution  of  higher  learning,  Sewanee  shares,  in  some  mea- 
sure, the  concern  common  to  our  society  and  our  culture.  Unlike  some  of  its  col- 
leagues, however,  Sewanee  has  not  drawn  back  from  the  problems  thrust  upon  it, 
but  has  affirmatively  sought  to  respond  creatively  and  handle  them  firmly  as  cir- 
cumstances may  require. 

The  University  continues  to  do  more  for  us.  As  alumni,  we  need  to  support 
the  officials  of  the  University  as  they  deal  constructively  with  less  enjoyable,  but  un- 
avoidable aspects  of  running  this  unique  institution. 

As  alumni,  we  vote  with  our  money,  our  services,  and  our  support. 

Be  generous  with  all  of  them. 

Please  let  me  know  what  we  can  or  should  be  doing,  and  thanks  for  all  your  ef- 
forts. 

Yea,  Sewanee's  right! 


Cooper  has  a  computer 
graphics  business  in  Raleigh, 
N.C.,  works  as  sound  engi- 
neer for  two  rock  bands,  and 
plays  Softball.  Charles 
DeWitt  is  a  missionary  in 
Mexico  for  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  America.   His 
fourth  child  and  first  daugh- 
ter, Sara  Jane,  was  born  last 
December.  Jay  Fisher  is  in 
the  banking  industry  in  Grif- 
fin, Ga.  Bill  Gilmer  is  presi- 
dent of  Wordsprint,  Inc.  His 
company  recently  was  named 
first  in  the  nation  in  manage- 
ment excellence  by  the  Na- 
tional Association  of  Quick 
Printers.   He  and  his  wife, 
Liza  Field  (C'84),  live  in 
Wytheville,  Va.  Elizabeth 
Goodson  is  a  computer  engi- 
neer in  Austin,  Texas. 
Grayson  Hall  is  executive 
vice  president  for  AmSouth 
Bank  in  Birmingham,  Ala. 
He  and  his  wife,  Susan,  have 
two  daughters  and  a  son. 
Julie  Hall  is  in  her  fifth  year 
as  assistant  professor  of  En- 
glish at  Sam  Houston  State 
University  in  Huntsville, 
Texas.  Nancy  Wilson  Hall  is 
a  writer  and  consultant  in 
Madison.  Conn.  Her  second 
book,  Children,  Families  & 
Government,  was  published  in 
the  fall,  and  she  is  a  contrib- 
uting editor  of  Parents  maga- 
zine. She  and  her  husband. 
David  Howell,  have  two  chil- 
dren. Knowles  Bonin  Harper 
and  her  husband.  Bill  (C'78), 
live  in  McLean,  Va.,  where 
Knowles  is  busy  with  various 
volunteer  projects.  Robert 
Hempel  recently  moved  to 
Dallas,  Texas,  from  Lafayette, 
La.,  to  start  a  new  job  as  pe- 
troleum engineer  with 
Degolyer  &  MacNaughton. 
Chap  Jackson  hunted  in  Si- 
beria last  September  and 
brought  back  a  bear  he 
killed.  He  remains  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  alumni  associa- 
tion but  is  now  in  admissions 
instead  of  regions.  Sarah 
Jackson  is  director  of  the 
Division  of  Charitable  Gam- 
ing with  the  Kentucky  Justice 
Cabinet.  She  lives  in  Frank- 
fort, Ky.  Brad  Jones  is  associ- 
ate rector  of  St.  Andrew's 
Bv-The-Sea  in  Destin,  Fla. 
He  and  his  wife,  Mary,  re- 
cently welcomed  their  sixth 
child,  Moriah.  Michael  Kuhn 
is  chaplain  at  Trinity  Episco- 
pal School  in  New  Orleans, 


La.  He  and  his  wife,  Maria 
Elliott,  have  two  children. 
Annie  Lancaster  is  a  lull-time 
mom  and  part-time  program- 
mer/analyst in  Austin,  Texas. 
David  Lodge  is  associate  pro- 
fessor in  the  Department  of 
Biological  Sciences  at  the 
University  of  Notre  Dame. 
Frank  and  Beth  Candler 
Marchman  live  in 
Sharpsburg,  Ga.,  where 
Frank  is  a  teacher  and  coach 
at  the  Heritage  School  and 
Beth  is  a  full-time  morn. 
Tom  McKeithen  works  in  the 
pharmaceutical  industry  in 
Orange  Park,  Fla.  Ann 
Mentz  is  a  law  librarian  for 
the  U.S.  Attorney's  Office, 
Eastern  District  of  Louisiana 
in  New  Orleans  and  recently 
was  appointed  Federal 
Women's  Program  director. 
Michael  Keith  Milligan  is 
director  of  national  accounts 
for  Direct  Mail  Systems  in 
Clearwater,  Fla.  He  is  vice 
president  of  the  Master's 
Swim  Team  in  St.  Petersburg, 
that  took  first  place  in  a  12.5 
mile  "swim  around  Key  West" 
relay.  Hal  Minnigan  lives  in 
Arden  Hills,  Minn.,  with  his 
wife,  Jane  Diedrich,  and  15- 
month-old  twins,  Jordan  and 
Sadie.  Tina  Lowry  Morgan  is 
family  services  coordinator 
for  Habitat  for  Humanity  of 
Catawba  Valley  in  Hickory 
N.C.  She  and  her  husband, 
Mark,  have  two  children. 
Mark  Mudano  is  an  ortho- 
paedic surgeon  in  Tampa, 
Fla.  He  attended  his  first 
world  series  in  1996  as  the 
Yankee's  orthopaedic  con- 
sultant. He  and  his  wife, 
Vicki,  have  two  sons.  Lisa 
Brandon  Neese  and  her  hus- 
band, Ed,  live  in  Shelbyville, 
Tenn.,  with  their  one-year- 
old  daughter,  Eliza  Claire. 
Lisa  has  been  working  with 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
in  Shelbyville  to  develop  a 
cultural  arts  center,  and  is  a 
buyer  for  three  retail  gift 
stores.  Jean  Kinnett  Oliver, 
her  husband,  John  (C80), 
and  their  two  children  live  in 
Birmingham,  Ala.,  where 
Jean  is  a  homemaker. 
Mathilda  (Teddy)  Padden  is 
accounting  manager  for 
American  Sky  Broadcasting, 
a  start-up  company  by  News 
Corp  and  MCI.  She  works 
on  the  Avenue  of  the  Ameri- 
cas in  New  York  City,  and 


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CLASS        NOTES 


lives  in  Cos  Cob,  Conn. 
Larry  Pixley  is  an  obstetrician 
and  gynecologist  in  Char- 
lotte, N.C.  He  and  his  wife, 
Laurie,  have  two  sons  and 
two  daughters.   Charlie  Potts 
is  an  attorney  with  Janecky, 
Newell,  Potts,  Wells  &  Wilson 
in  Mobile,  Ala.  He  and  his 
wife,  Susan,  stay  busy  with 
their  three  daughters,  Nolan, 
Haley,  and  Deborah  Jane. 
Gene  Price  practices  corpo- 
rate and  healthcare  law  in 
Birmingham,  Ala.  He  and 
his  wife,  Sally,  have  three 
children:  Sarah,  Temple,  and 
Lewis.  Hamilton  Reynolds  is 
president  of  Industrial  Real 
Estate  Division  in  Atlanta. 
He  and  his  wife,  Julia,  re- 
cently welcomed  their  third 
child,  Man'  Virginia.  Kirsten 
Pilcher  Russ  is  a  teacher  in 
Kernersville,  N.C.  She  and 
her  husband,  Rob,  live  in 
Clemmons,  with  their  two 
boys,  ages  7  and  2.  Bitsy 
Rogers  Segrest  is  an  attorney 
in  Vicksburg,  Miss.  She  and 
her  husband,  John,  cel- 
ebrated Mardi  Gras  by  riding 
in  the  Krewe  of  Tucks  in  New 
Orleans.  Kimberly  Sessions 
is  an  HIV/ AIDS  medical 
educator  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and 
is  working  toward  a  doctoral 
degree  in  adult  education. 
Anne  Gaiennie  Simon  works 
part-time  as  a  law  clerk  in 
Lafayette,  La.,  and  paints 
children's  footstools.  Becky 
Littleton  Sims  and  her  hus- 
band. Chuck,  still  live  in  Grif- 
fin, Ga.,  where  Becky  works 
part-time  at  the  family  busi- 
ness, and  Chuck  recently 
won  a  seat  in  the  Georgia 
House  of  Representatives. 
Rebecca  Hensley  Wartman 
and  her  husband,  Frank 
(C'78),  relocated  to  Forest 
City,  N.C,  where  she  is  an 
optometrist  with  Doctors 
Vision  Center  and  is  starting 
a  concentrated  children's 
vision  program.  Justin 
Watson  is  an  instructor  in 
religious  studies  at  Florida 
State  University  and  will  have 
his  dissertation  on  the  Chris- 
tian Coalition  published  by 
St.  Martin's  Press  in  Septem- 
ber 1997.  Nan  Wells  has 
returned  to  her  hometown  of 
Pensacola,  Fla.,  where  she  is 
an  operating  room  registered 
nurse.  Susan  Loyd  Wiles  is 
conductor  and  music  direc- 
tor of  Kent  Singers  in  Con- 
necticut. She  and  her 
husband,  Preston  (C78), 


have  a  son  and  a  daughter. 
Felton  Wright  is  a  certified 
financial  planner  for  Merrill 
Lynch  in  Tallahassee,  Fla. 
Clay  Yeatman  is  a  senior  en- 
gineer for  American  Honda, 
Power  Equipment  Division, 
in  Duluth,  Ga.  He  is  on  the 
Singles  Commission  at  the 
Cathedral  of  St.  Philip  and  is 
the  Atlanta  section  secretary 
of  the  Society  of  Automotive 
Engineers. 


'80 


Ms.  Suzanne  L.  DeWalt 
1066  Old  Gate  Road 
Pittsburgh,  PA  15235 

Rose  Mary  Drake  has  as- 
sumed the  position  of  direc- 
tor of  rental  housing  at  the 
LIniversity  of  the  South. 


'82 


Ms.  Catherine  Meriwether 
1001  Beltline  Boulevard 
Columbia,  SC  29205-2155 

Robert  Holland  and  his  wife, 
Helen,  welcomed  a  son, 
Geoffrey  Michael,  on  April 
13,  1997.  They  also  have  a 
daughter,  Alison.  Paul 
Perrea  works  at  Square  D 
Company  in  Troy,  Mich. 
Jackie  Scott  Stapler  spent  two 
years  as  a  Peace  Corps  volun- 
teer in  the  water  sanitation 
program  in  Honduras  and 
now  is  an  assistant  to  a  sur- 
veyor. She  and  her  husband, 
Ed,  live  in  Floral  City,  Fla., 
where  they  are  restoring  a  26- 
foot  sailboat  with  the  hope  of 
sailing  to  Honduras. 


'83 


Mr.  Stewart  A.  Low 
215  Homes  Avenue 
Vorhees,  NJ  08043 

Alice  Sasser  is  a  veterinarian 
in  Knoxville,  Tenn. 


'84 


Ms.  Anne  Freels  Bleynat 
109  Westwood  Road 
Asheville.NC  28804-2242 

David  and  Christine  Brown 

(C'88)  James  have  a  daugher, 
Lydia  Grace,  born  March  2, 
1997.  David  is  completing  a 
master's  degree  at  Duke 
University's  Nicholas  School 


Make  plans 
now  to  attend 
Sewanee  s 
Homecoming  '97 
Oct  24-26. 


of  the  Environment.  Jim  and 
Liz  Wright  (C'85)  King  wel- 
comed their  second  son, 
Spencer  Wright,  on  June  1, 
1997.  The  Kings  live  in 
Sewanee  where  Jim  is  direc- 
tor of  reunion  giving  for  the 
University.  Ned  Murray  lias 
relocated  to  Chattanooga, 
Tenn.,  from  Idaho  where  he 
is  associate  headmaster  of 
Baylor  School.  Jackie 
Stanton  married  David 
Jerome  Hill  at  All  Saints' 
Chapel  in  Sewanee  on  May 
31,1997. 


'86 


Ms.  Read  van  de  Water 
4701  29th  Place,  N.W. 
Washington,  DC  20008 

Walter  Sechriest  was  pro- 
moted recently  to  lieutenant 
commander  in  the  U.S.  Na- 
val Reserve.  He  is  manager 
for  the  Business  Develop- 
ment Group  at  KPMG  Peat 
Marwick  in  Washington,  D.C. 


'87 


Mr.  Fox  Helms  Johnston  Jr. 
325  Park  Road 
Lookout  Mountain,  TN 
37350 

Randall  Lancaster  is  director 
of  drama  and  theater  and 
teaches  American  literature, 
drama,  and  speech  at  Father 
Ryan  High  School  in  Nash- 


'88 


Ms.  Lesley  Grant 

459  N.  Gardner  Street 

Los  Angeles,  CA  90036-5708 

Brian  and  Emily  Ramsey 
Acker  live  in  Georgia  where 
Brian  is  personnel  analyst  for 
the  Georgia  Department  of 


Labor,  and  Emily  is  admis- 
sions counselor  at  Inner 
Harbour  Hospital.  They 
have  two  children.   Margaret 
Ellyn  Blanton  Beiler  and  her 
husband,  David  (C75),  live 
in  Falmouth,  Va.,  where  she 
is  deputy  director  of  the  Na- 
tional Demonstration  Labo- 
ratory for  Interactive 
Information  Technologies, 
Academy  for  Educational 
Development.  Bill  Bozeman 
married  Elizabeth  Truby 
Ribadeneyra  on  April  12, 
1997,  in  Jacksonville,  Fla. 
John  Fite  received  a  master's 
degree  in  film  studies  from 
Emory  University  in  Atlanta, 
Ga.,inMay  1997.  Loren 
Andrea  Friedel  graduated 
from  Roger  Williams  Univer- 
sity Ralph  R.  Papitto  School 
of  Law  in  Rhode  Island  on 
May  17,  1997.  In  February 
she  represented  the  School 
of  Law  in  the  1997  Judge 
John  R.  Brown  Admiralty 
Moot  Court  Competition, 
held  at  the  University  of 
Richmond,  as  a  member  of 
the  Moot  Court  Honor  Soci- 
ety. Julia  Ward  Hamilton 
and  her  husband,  Taylor, 
had  a  son,  Parker  Ward,  on 
March  10,  1997.  Julia  and 
Taylor  have  formed  an  ex- 
ecutive search  firm  in  Knox- 
ville, Tenn.,  placing  senior 
executives  within  the  furni- 
ture industry.  Christine 
Brown  James  and  her  hus- 
band, David  (C84),  have  a 
daughter,  Lydia  Grace,  born 
March  2,  1997.  Christine  is 
spending  the  summer  in 
Houston,  Texas,  working  for 
the  law  firm  of  Baker  & 
Hostetler,  and  plans  to  re- 
turn to  Durham,  N.C,  in  the 
fall.  Susan  Landreth-Everett 
and  her  husband,  Richard, 
welcomed  their  first  child, 
Landreth  Ellen,  on  March 
23,  1997. 


The  University  of  the  South 


33 


CLASS       NOTES 


'89 


Mr.  John  Patten  Guerryjr. 
175  Kenley  Court 
Marietta,  GA  30068 

Ms.  Joy  Archer  Yeager 
5800  Woodwax  #405 
Houston,  TX  77057-1511 

Wendy  Urbanski  Crale  and 

her  husband,  David,  live  in 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  where 
she  teaches  high  school 
math.  Kim  Hatfield 
Heitzenrater  and  her  hus- 
band, Jeff,  had  a  son,  Andrew 
Benton,  on  July  23,  1997. 
Kim  is  the  director  of  annual 
giving  at  Sewanee.  Colleen 
Peek  Sullivan  and  her  hus- 
band, Tom,  had  a  daughter, 
Saville  Elizabeth,  on  Jan.  12, 
1997. 


literature  at  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity in  Nashville.  Stuart 
and  Amanda  Agnew  Pierson 
have  opened  their  own  busi- 
ness, Bookkeepers  and  More, 
LLC,  in  The  Plains,  Va. 
Amanda  has  a  law  degree 
from  the  University  of  Ala- 
bama, and  Stuart  studied 
accounting  at  the  University 
of  Alabama,  then  went  on  to 
complete  a  master's  degree 
in  tax  at  George  Mason  Uni- 
versity. George  Stevenson  is 
in  a  two-year  culinary  arts 
program  at  the  New  England 
Culinary  Institute  in  Montpe- 
lier,  Vt.,  pursuing  an  associ- 
ate of  occupational  studies 
degree. 


'91 


'90 


Ms.  Kity  Morrissey 

149  Central  Avenue,  Apt.  13 

Ridgefield  Park,  NJ  07660 

Dennis  Kezar  received  his 
Ph.D.  from  the  University  of 
Virginia  and  has  a  tenure- 
track  appointment  as  assis- 
tant professor  of  renaissance 


Ms.  Marsey  L.  Waller 
536  E.  Luray  Avenue 
Alexandria,  VA  22301 

Stephanie  Skinner  Betts,  her 

husband,  Rick,  and  their  new 
baby  girl,  Emily  Ann,  recently 
moved  to  Woodstock,  Ga. 
Lynda  Hodgson  received  her 
tenure  in  teaching  this 
spring.  She  is  an  English 
teacher  at  Mechanicville 
High  School  in  New  York. 


When  Sewanees  Founders 
arrived  on  the  Mountain  in 
1857  their  vision  was  bold... 


Their  insight  yielded  a  place  rich  with  vibrant  classrooms 
lively  scholarship — the  hallmarks  of  a  Sewanee  education 
the  support  of  alumni,  parents,  and  friends, 
Sewanee  has  risen  to  the  Founders'  call. 
Your  gift  will  help  the  University  continue  as 
a  force  in  independent  higher  education. 
Give  generously  to  The  Campaign  For 
Sewanee.  Honor  the  Founders'  vision  and 
secure  Sewanee's  future  by  making  a  contri- 
bution today  to  the  Sewanee  Annual  Fund. 


and 
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Heidi  Ramsey  Krell  married 
Eric  Krell  on  Dec.  28,  1996, 
in  Greenville,  Texas.  They 
live  in  Fort  Collins,  Colo. 
Walter  Tyree  and  his  wife, 
Nina,  welcomed  their  son, 
Carter  Clark,  on  May  16, 
1997. 


'92 


Ms.  Kathryn  McDonald 
2700  Arlington  Avenue,  S#18 
Birmingham,  AL  35205 

K.D.  Acuff  is  working  toward 
a  master's  in  history  at  the 
LTniversity  of  West  Florida  in 
Pensacola.  Nicholas 
Albanese  teaches  at  Florida 
Community  College  of  Jack- 
sonville and  is  assistant  base- 
ball coach  for  the  Episcopal 
High  School  varsity  team.  He 
and  classmate  Peter  Blessey 
share  an  apartment  in  Jack- 
sonville. Lexi  Alvarez  lives  in 
Fernandina  Beach,  Fla., 
where  she  opened  a  family 
law  practice  with  another 
attorney.  Sharlene  Garber 
Bax  completed  a  Ph.D.  at  the 
L'niversity  of  Tennessee  at 
Knoxville  in  May  1997.  Julia 
Daniel  Bean  and  her  hus- 
band, Chase  (C'93),  live  in 
Kansas  City,  Mo.  Andy 
Buchanan  finished  seminary 
at  Trinity  in  Ambridge, 
Penn.,  and  was  ordained  in 
June  1997.  Hunter  Crose 
lives  in  Hilton  Head,  S.C., 
and  plans  to  start  medical 
school  in  Charleston.  Julie 
Curd  works  in  development 
for  the  Medical  College  of 
Virginia.  Lemuel 
Daubenspeck  sells  pharma- 
ceuticals for  Pfizer  and  lives 
in  Paducah,  Ky.  Helen  Davis 
married  John  Britton  on 
April  5,  1997.  They  live  in 
Chapel  Hill,  N.C.  Jennifer 
Dye  is  a  computer  consultant 
for  Berkley  Communications 
Co.  in  Charleston,  S.C. 
Rebecca  English  teaches  first 
and  second  grades  in 
Dawsonville,  Ga.  Miles  Ewing 
attends  business  school  in 
Austin,  Texas.  Samantha 
Fields  is  an  illustrations  assis- 
tant for  World,  National 
Geographic's  children's 
magazine.  She  lives  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.  Chris  Gardner 
is  pursuing  a  master's  in 
health  services  administra- 
tion at  George  Washington 
University.  Georgiana 


George  and  Letty  Stoneman 

formed  a  country  music  band 
called  "Letty  and  Georgia." 
They  completed  their  first 
album  recently.   Lara  Gra- 
ham is  finishing  a  master's 
degree  in  early  education  at 
VCTJ  in  Richmond,  Va.  Ma- 
son Hardy  is  the  director  of 
government  relations  at  the 
South  Carolina  Hospital  As- 
sociation in  Columbia.  He 
ran  the  Marine  Corps  Mara- 
thon in  Washington,  D.C, 
last  October.  Harmony 
Haskins  works  at  the  Na- 
tional Gallery  of  Art  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.  Tripp  Head  is  a 
second-year  law  student  at 
Cumberland.  Mark  Henry 
works  for  Motorola  as  an 
environmental  engineer  on 
one  of  their  superfund 
remediation  sites.  He  and 
his  wife,  Carina,  live  in  Phoe- 
nix, Ariz.  Amy  Hobeika  is 
working  toward  a  Ph.D.  in 
microbiology  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Florida-Gainesville, 
and  will  have  work  published 
in  the  Journal  Oncogem:  D.J. 
Holt  teaches  high  school 
Latin  at  St.  Andrew's  Episco- 
pal School  in  Ridgeland, 
Miss.,  and  performs  in  com- 
munity theater.  Scott 
Hudmon  is  a  programmer/ 
analyst  at  a  mortgage  soft- 
ware company  and  a  week- 
end MBA  student  at  The 
University  of  North  Florida 
in  Jacksonville.  Baron  Jordan 
completed  his  MBA  at  the 
University  of  South  Carolina 
in  June  1997.  Andy  and  Beth 
Stocks  Keyse  live  in  Chicago, 
111.,  where  Beth  is  a  computer 
software  instructor  at 
ExecuTrain  and  Andy  works 
for  Busch  Media  Group. 
Kathy  Koogler  Lewis  works  in 
a  veterinarian  clinic  in  Nash- 
ville and  hopes  to  attend 
veterinary  school  in  a  couple 
of  years.  Honor  Marks 
moved  to  Charleston,  S.C,  in 
January  1997  to  accept  ajob 
as  designer  and  art  director 
at  a  local  company.  Kathleen 
McConnell  teaches  English  at 
the  College  of  Charleston 
and  hopes  to  start  medical 
school  in  1998.  Ramsey 
McGrory  is  completing  a 
master's  at  Georgia  Tech  and 
has  accepted  ajob  with 
Citibank  Capital  Markets  in 
New  York.  Brandon  Mclnnis 
is  a  management  consultant 
in  Houston,  Texas.  Madison 


SEWANEE/AUGUST    1997 


CLASS        NOTES 


Michael  is  completing  his 
third  year  of  medical  school 
at  the  University  of  Tennes- 
see at  Memphis  and  plans  to 
apply  for  a  neurosurgery 
residency.  Tara  Mitchell 
Mielnik  is  working  toward  a 
doctorate  in  history  with 
emphasis  on  historic  preser- 
vation at  Middle  Tennessee 
State  University  in 
Murfreesboro.  Judson 
Moore  is  completing  his  sec- 
ond year  of  medical  sch<  ><  >]  al 
the  University  of  Alabama  at 
Birmingham.  Patrick  Moore 
landed  a  project  with  Jim 
Henson  Productions  working 
on  a  new  aerodynamic 
muppet  character.  Theresa 
Nixon  teaches  in  Knoxville. 
Tenn.  Her  student  council 
will  host  the  state  convention 
this  year  for  approximately 
1,000  people.  Hal  and  Claire 
Carter  Noelke  are  both  attor- 
neys living  in  San  Angelo, 
Texas.  Hal  practices  real 
estate  and  oil  and  gas  law 
and  Claire  is  the  juvenile 
prosecutor  with  the  District 
Attorney's  office.  Chris 
Perkins  married  Chad 
Griffith  on  April  19,  1997.  at 
All  Saints'  Chapel  in 
Sewanee.  Virginia  Perry  is 
marketing  manager  for 
Vanderweil  Engineers,  a  400- 
person  consulting  engineer- 
ing firm  in  Dorchester,  Mass. 
Cathy  Hill ups  Poquette  is  a 
biostatistician  at  St.  Jude 
Children's  Research  Hospital 
in  Memphis,  Tenn.  Robert 
Price  and  his  wife,  Izabell, 
have  a  son,  Thomas 
Alexander,  born  May  1 3, 
1997.  Robert  has  started 
work  on  an  MBA  in  Austin, 
Texas.  Christina  Trubey 
Sawyer  and  her  husband, 
Alexander,  celebrated  the 
birth  of  their  daughter,  Edith 
Morgan,  on  Feb.  16,  1997. 
Christina  completed  her 
army  enlistment  and  now 
enjoys  staying  home  in 
Wahiawa,  Hawaii.  Edward 
Seagram  is  in  sales  and  mar- 
keting for  a  broadcast  soft- 
ware company  called 
Tapscan.  He  also  sells  recre- 
ational real  estate  and  rides 
snowmobiles  in  and  around 
his  home  in  Toronto, 
Canada.  Merri  Shaw  is  an 
intern  in  internal  medicine/ 
pediatrics  in  Memphis,  Tenn. 
Jessie  Clifton  Smiley  has  one 
year  of  nursing  school  to 


complete.  She  and  her  hus- 
band, Riddick  (C'91),  just 
bought  a  house  in 
Greenville,  N.C.  Jennifer 
Smith  lives  in  Houston, 
Texas,  and  works  for  Phillips 
Petroleum  as  a  geologist. 
Scott  Thompson  is  employed 
al  Montag  and  Caldwell  in 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  is  in  the 
evening  MBA  program  at 
Emory.  Tom  Turner  just 
returned  from  a  four-year 
jaunt  in  Thailand.  He  is  at 
UNC-Chapel  Hill  working  on 
a  master's  in  English  educa- 
tion. Richard  Tyrrell  is  in  his 
fifth  year  of  teaching  Ger- 
man and  English  at  Baylor 
School  in  Chattanooga, 
Tenn.  He  has  been  accepted 
into  the  German  track  of  the 
Master  of  International  Busi- 
ness program  at  South  Caro- 
lina. Christop  von  Voss  lives 
in  Martinez,  Calif.,  where  he 
teaches  history  and  English. 
Hart  Waring  recently  was 
promoted  to  appraiser  at  the 
Charleston  County  Auditor's 
Office  in  Charleston,  S.C. 
Becky  Thompson  Watson  is 
an  internal  medicine/pediat- 
rics resident  at  the  University 
of  Texas  Houston  Medical 
Center.  Jay  Woodall  is  a 
management  consultant  for 
Premier  at  Rockdale  Hospital 
near  Atlanta,  Ga.  He  plans 
to  begin  business  school  at 
Vanderbilt  University  this 
summer. 


'93 


Ms.  Rebecca  Miller 
4203  Town  Walk  Drive 
Hamden,  CT  06518 

Brad  and  Laura  Middleton 
(C90)  Adams  live  in 
Gainesville,  Fla.,  where  Brad 
attends  law  school  at  the 
University  of  Florida  and 
writes  CD  reviews  for  Reggae 
Report  magazine.  Pete  Cook 
and  Amanda  Cook  (C'95) 
were  married  April  5,  1997, 
in  Macon,  Ga.  Ashley  Heyer 
is  pursuing  a  master's  degree 
in  political  science  at  Louisi- 
ana State  University.  Sara 
Kambouris  is  continuing 
graduate  work  in  chemistry 
at  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. Robin  Milam  is  work- 
ing toward  a  master's  in 
speech-language  pathology  at 
Vanderbilt  University.  Elaine 
Mueller  works  as  a  research 


assistant  at  Human  Life  Inter- 
national in  Front  Royal,  Va., 
in  addition  to  working  to- 
ward her  master's  in  public 
policy.   Charley  Rice  and 
Robert  Thompson  (C94) 
were  married  May  3,  1997. 
They  live  in  Charlotte,  N.C. 


'94 


Ms.  Dawn  White 
1523  Custis  Court 
Atlanta  GA  30338 

Tobey  Allison  Davis  attends 
law  school  in  Knoxville, 
Tenn. 


'95 


Ms.  Anne  McGinn 
21  Trevor  Place 
London  SW7,  UK 

Celena  Benjamin  is  a  drug 
addictions  counselor  and  is 
working  toward  a  master's  in 
mental  health  counseling 
from  Webster  University  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.  Alex  Brown  is 
a  law  student  in  Baltimore, 
Md.  Bill  Jarrett  teaches  En- 
glish in  Taiwan  with  Liz  Ar- 
cher (C96)    Misty  Maib 
works  in  the  math  depart- 
ment at  James  F.  Byrnes 
Academy  in  Florence,  S.C. 
Laurel  Murchison  is  a  Euro- 
pean history  teacher  and 
soccer  coach  at  Foxcroft 
School  in  Middleburg,  Va. 
Brett  Trotter  is  seeking  a 
Ph.D.  in  physical  chemistry  at 
Vanderbilt  University  in 
Nashville. 


'96 


Ms.  E.  Ashley  Neal 
603  Gary  Street 
Augusta,  GA  30904 

Jason  Abel  is  working  toward 
a  master's  of  sacred  music  in 
organ  at  Southern  Methodist 
University  in  Dallas,  Texas. 
Lisa  Akerman  taught  English 
and  worked  for  a  magazine 
in  Costa  Rica  for  six  months 
after  graduation,  and  now 
works  for  Total  System  Ser- 
vices in  Columbus,  Ga. 
Lizzie  Anderson  is  working  in 
the  Peace  Corps  as  a  second- 
ary school  English  teacher  in 
Moldova,  a  small  Eastern 
European  country  between 


Romania  and  the  Ukraine. 
Liz  Archer  teaches  English  in 
Taiwan  with  Bill  Jarrett 
(C'95)    Ariel  Bennett  is  a 

graduate  teaching  assistant  at 
the  University  of  Denver  and 
is  teaching  Irish  dancing. 
Ashley  Brown  is  working 
toward  a  master's  degree  in 
American  decorative  arts 
history,  19th  and  20th  centu- 
ries, and  interning  at  the 
Smithsonian  Horticultural 
Services  Division's  Artifact 
Collection  in  Washington, 
D.C.  Anne  Budros  works  at 
BT  Services  Tennessee,  Inc., 
in  Nashville.   Chris  Campbell 
is  completing  his  first  year  of 
medical  school  at  Southwest- 
ern in  Texas.  J.  Willis  Cantey 
has  worked  as  a  financial 
consultant  for  an  offshore 
planning  and  investment 
firm  in  the  Republic  of 
Panama  since  graduation. 
He  plans  to  enter  the  Univer- 
sity of  South  Carolina's  MIBS 
program  this  summer.  Chris 
Cargill  is  a  production  intern 
at  the  Pope  Theatre  in 
Manalapan,  Fla.  Abbey 
Christman  is  in  the  public 
history/historic  preservation 
graduate  program  at  Middle 
Tennessee  State  University  in 
Murfreesboro.  Carter 
Clements  is  an  analyst  and 
securities  officer  at  Patten 
and  Patten  in  Chattanooga. 
Tenn.  Jennifer  Crook  is 
pursuing  a  master's  in 


CANOE   TEAM    REUNION    SET    FOR    OCTOBER 

Alumni  from  Sewanee 's  distinguished  canoe  teams 
will  gather  on  October  11-12  at  the  Nantahala  Outdoor 
Center  to  share  paddling  stories  and  to  honor  long-time 
coach  Steve  Puckette,  C'49. 

Doug  Cameron,  a  former  head  of  the  Sewanee  Out- 
ing Program  and  an  avid  paddler,  is  organizing  the  event. 

"We  will  paddle  the  river  on  Saturday  and  Sunday.  We 
can  rent  rafts  or  "rubber  duckies"  for  spouses  and  chil- 
dren and  those  of  us  who  are  too  rusty  to  paddle  a  canoe," 
says  Cameron.  "We  will  gather  for  dinner  on  Saturday 
night  at  die  wonderful  new  Relia's  Garden  restaurant  at 
the  Nantahala  Outdoor  Center,  and  there  we  can  tell  tall 
tales  about  "the  Dean"  Puckette  and  our  canoe  team 
days." 

"Whether  or  not  you  can  come,  please  consider  writ- 
ing down  some  tales  about  Puckette  and  the  Canoe  Team 
and  making  copies  of  any  pictares  you  have  so  we  can  put 
together  a  scrap  book  to  be  kept  at  the  Outing  office  or 
the  Alumni  Office  at  Sewanee." 

For  more  information  about  the  event,  you  can  write 
Cameron  at  900  Can-Tex  Drive,  Sewanee,  TN  37375- 
2835.  Or  call  him  at  615-598-0565;  his  E-mail  address  is 
dcameron@sewanee.edu. 


The  University  of  the  South 


35 


CLASS       NOTES 


SEWANEE       FALL      FESTIVAL      AND      SKEET      SHOOT 


The  1997  Skeet  Shoot  has  been  expanded  in  an  effort  to  attract  more  people  and 
raise  more  money  for  the  Dale  Reich  Memorial  Scholarship  Fund.  To  date,  this  spe- 
cial annual  event  has  raised  nearly  $10,000  for  worthy  students  from  the  Atlanta  area. 
This  year  the  Sewanee  Club  of  Atlanta  will  host  the  Sewanee  Fall  Festival  and  Skeet 
Shoot  on  Saturday,  October  11,  1997,  in  Atlanta. 

The  Skeet  Shoot  competition  will  take  place  at  South  River  Gun  Club  from  10 
a.m.  to  1  p.m.  where  prizes  will  be  awarded  to  winners  of  the  team  and  individual 
competitions. 

The  Fall  Festival  will  begin  at  2  p.m.  at  the  newly  renovated  Water  Works  Lodge 
located  off  Nortliside  Drive.  At  the  festival  there  will  be  activities  for  the  entire  family, 
including  carnival  games  by  Starwalk  Enterprises,  barbecue  catered  by  LowCountry 
Barbecue  plus  live  music  and  beverages.  As  always,  this  is  an  open  event  and  every- 
one is  welcome. 

Please  be  sure  to  mark  your  calendars!  If  you  have  any  questions  or  need  any 
additional  information,  please  contact  Frank  Burns  at  404-239-1 150. 


women's  studies  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Alabama  in 
Tuscaloosa.  Thomas  Daniel 
has  been  working  with  Willis 
Corroon  in  London.   He 
lived  with  classmates  Roe 
Elani,  John  Wallace,  and 
Katherine  Slingluff  while  in 
London.  Molly  Davis  works 
at  the  Frederick  R.  Weisman 
Museum  of  Art  at 
Pepperdine  University's  Cen- 
ter for  the  Arts  in  Malibu, 
(alii.  Tom  Dees  is  a  case 
clerk  in  the  litigation  section 
of  Vinson  &  Elkins  in  Dallas, 
Texas.  Roe  Elam  has  been 
working  at  Merrill  Lynch  in 
London.  Kathy  Estes  is  ai 
the  L'niversity  of  Tennessee 
School  of  Law  in  Knoxville. 
Clinton  Fisher  is  a  paralegal 
in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  is  train- 
ing for  the  National  Master's 
Swim  Meet  to  be  held  in 
Senile.  Wash.   Eliza  Fisher  is 
in  the  master's  program  for 
English  at  the  University  of 
Alabama  in  Tuscaloosa  and 
teaches  freshman  English 
through  a  graduate  teaching 
assistantship.  Julia  Frazier 
will  be  spending  the  next  two 
years  in  the  Peace  Corps. 
She  is  not  sure  of  her  destina- 
tion, but  will  be  in  a  French- 
speaking  country  in  Africa 
working  in  the  areas  of  water 
sanitation  and  health  and 
nutrition.  Cara  Freeman 
works  for  Rravet  in  Atlanta, 
Ga.  Emmie  Gaillard  is  on 
the  procurement  team  at 
Material  Management  and 
Services,  a  subsidiary  com- 
pany of  Cameron  &  Barklev 
in  Charleston,  S.C.  Elizabeth 
Galligan  writes  children's 
stories  and  works  for  IGA 


grocery  in  Thermopolis, 
Wyo.  Kimberly  Gay  works  at 
the  Washington  Arts  Associa- 
tion in  D.C.  as  a 
photographer's  assistant. 
Meredith  Geiger  has  re- 
turned to  the  states  after 
living  near  Milan,  Italy, 
where  she  was  a  nanny  for 
the  family  of  Michelle  and 
Halsey  (C85)  Cook.  Terry 
Gibson  teaches  at  Glades 
Day  School  in  Belle  Glade, 
Fla.  Eliza  Goodall  is  in  New 
Orleans,  La.,  where  she  is 
cooking  among  New  Or- 
leans' top  chefs.  Hays 
Green  moved  from  Louisi- 
ana to  Birmingham  where 
he  is  attending  the  Univer- 
sity of  Alabama  School  of 
Public  Health.  Katie  Greene 
and  Clark  Gallivan  were 
married  May  24,  1997,  in 
Jackson,  Miss.  They  live  in 
Greenville,  S.C,  where  Clark 
works  for  an  environmental 
consulting  firm  and  Katie  is 
completing  a  master's  in 
horticulture  at  Clemson 
University.  Robert  Griffith 
is  a  graduate  student  in  con- 
struction management/civil 
engineering  at  North  Caro- 
lina State  University. 
Theresa  Hartley  is  complet- 
ing a  master's  degree  in 
accounting  at  the  University 
of  North  Carolina  at  Chapel 
Hill.   Kyle  Heard  is  em- 
ployed by  McDonnell  Aero- 
space in  Huntsville,  Ala.  Jim 
Henley  is  a  geologist  for 
Remediation  Technologies 
in  Seattle,  Wash.  Kevin 
Hiers  is  in  graduate  school 
at  The  Institute  of  Ecology, 
University  of  Georgia,  on  a 
joint  program  with  Jones 
Ecological  Research  Center, 


Ichaway  Plantation  (Woo- 
druff Foundation ) .  Skye 
Howell  is  in  education  and 
development  at  the  Seattle 
Children's  Theatre  and  assis- 
tant director  for  the  Seattle 
Shakespeare  Festival  in  the 
state  of  Washington.  Phillip 
and  Lori  Phillips  Jones  are  in 
Knoxville,  Tenn.,  where 
Phillip  works  at  American 
General  Life  and  Accident 
Insurance  Company,  and 
Lori  is  a  first-year  law  student 
at  the  University  of  Tennes- 
see School  of  Law.   Phillip 
recently  received  the  Rookie 
of  the  Year  award  and  the 
President's  Award  of  Excel- 
lence from  American  Gen- 
eral. Katherine  Kellogg  is  a 
paralegal  and  appears  in  a 
local  production  of  The  Sound 
of  Music  in  Virginia.  Chandra 
Kistner  lives  in  the  Cayman 
Islands  working  as  a  cook  and 
finishing  her  first  novel. 
Sissy  Kuhlke  is  living  in  Nash- 
ville and  working  at  Davis 
Kidd  Booksellers.  Valerie 
Kuthe  is  department  head  of 
a  nursing  home  in  Denver, 
Colo.  She  traveled  to  India 
in  the  summer  and  fall  of 
1996  and  hiked  in  the 
Himalayas.  Gretel  Lesslie 
completed  her  first  year  at 
Wake  Forest  University's 
Bowman-Gray  medical  school 
in  Winston-Salem,  N.C.  Jen- 
nifer Leveridge  is  a  part-time 
graduate  student  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Kentucky  and  plans 
to  attend  medical  school 
there  in  the  fall.  Belle  Litde 
works  for  Wachovia  Bank  in 
the  management  training 
program  in  Spartanburg,  S.C'. 
Berkeley  Litde  is  a  Latin 
teacher  and  field  hockey 
coach  at  the  Spartanburg  Day 
School  in  South  Carolina. 
Montgomery  Maguire  is 
working  temporarily  as  a 
paralegal  in  Tokyo  and  Hong 
Kong.  Will  Merritt  is  doing 
research  for  a  cardiothoracic 
surgeon  in  Charleston,  S.C, 
and  plans  to  enter  medical 
school  in  the  fall.  Adam 
Miller  is  spending  six  months 
working  in  Bom  nemouthe, 
England.  Ashley  Neal  volun- 
teers at  the  Veterans'  Affairs 
Medical  Center  in  Augusta, 
Ga.  She  plans  to  pursue  a 
master's  degree  in  physical 
therapy  at  the  Medical  Col- 
lege of  Georgia  in  the  fall. 
Robert  Paine  attends  Vander- 


bilt  Lmiversity  in  Nashville 
and  lives  with  classmates 
Ryan  Healon,  Richard  Faw, 
and  Hunter  Connelly.  Grant 
Palmer  is  a  first-year  graduate 
student  in  the  chemistry  de- 
partment at  the  University  of 
Kentucky  in  Lexington.  Jaret 
Pfluger  teaches  English  and 
American  culture  in  China. 
Caroline  Powell  is  a  sales 
head  at  REI  in  Atlanta,  Ga. 
Tom  Powell  is  with  the  Peace 
Corps  in  Nepal.  Paul  Randall 
is  participating  in  the  Falls 
Church  Fellows  Program  and 
looking  for  a  job  in  youth 
ministry.  Marion  Renneker  is 
a  program  assistant  at  the 
Alabama  Rivers  Alliance  in 
Birmingham.  Rob  Rhoden  is 
studying  at  Tulane  Law 
School,  and  playing  soccer 
and  writing  in  his  spare  time. 
Anthony  Rico  is  pursuing 
graduate  work  in  industrial 
and  organizational  psychol- 
ogy at  the  University  of  Ten- 
nessee at  Chattanooga. 
Melissa  Riley  is  working  on  a 
master's  degree  in  aerospace 
at  Middle  Tennessee  State 
University  in  Murfreesboro. 
She  is  working  toward  earn- 
ing her  instrument  rating  as 
a  pilot.  Sara  Smith  lives  in 
Vinings,  Ga.,  and  works  for 
Perimeter  Maintenance 
Corp.  Jeddie  Suddeth  works 
for  a  law  firm  in  Atlanta,  Ga., 
and  plans  to  study  environ- 
mental law.  Celeste 
Unsworth  is  in  Japan  teach- 
ing English  to  high  school 
students.  She  traveled  to 
Hong  Kong  in  March.  Beth 
Vickers  is  pursing  an  MBA  in 
Waco,  Texas.  Erik  Walker  is 
an  air  defense  officer  for  the 
U.S.  Marine  Corps  in 
Carmel,  Calif.  Ann  Walsh  is  a 
paralegal  with  Appel, 
Chitwood  &  Harley  in  At- 
lanta, Ga.  John  Warren  is 
sailing  around  the  world 
aboard  the  sailing  yacht  Bon 
Ami.  Kellam  Warren  is  a  law 
student  at  the  University  of 
Alabama  in  Tuscaloosa. 
Shann  Williams  recently  be- 
gan chiropractic  school  at 
Palmer  College  of  Chiroprac- 
tic in  Iowa.  Stephanie  Wilson 
is  a  graduate  student  at  the 
University  of  Alabama  at 
Huntsville  working  on  a 
master's  degree  in  English. 
David  Young  is  an  assistant 
director  of  annual  giving  in 
Sewanee. 


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IN        M    K    M    O    R    I    A    M 


The  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  H. 
Wright,  C'26,  of  Wilmington, 
N.C.,  died  April  26,  1997.  At 

Sewanee,  hr  was  a  iiicinlx  i 
of  Sigma  Nu  fraternity,  Sigma 
Epsilon,  Alpha  Phi  Epsilon. 
and  an  honorary  member  of 
Omicron  Delta  Kappa.  He 
later  served  on  the 
University's  Board  of  Trust- 
ees. He  was  ordained  in 
1929,  having  attended  Vir- 
ginia Theological  Seminary, 
and  in  1945  became  the 
youngest  bishop  ever  conse- 
crated in  the  Episcopal 
Church  at  the  time.  He 
served  as  bishop  of  the  Dio- 
i  esc  ol  [■  .is!  (  iarolina  h  ■  mi 
1945  to  1973.  He  achieved 
internatic  mal  prominence 
when  he  served  for  six  years 
as  chair  of  the  Overseas  De- 
partment of  the  National 
Church,  which  included  vir- 
tually every  province  of  the 
Worldwide  Anglican  Com- 
munion. He  later  served  as 
chair  of  the  Inter-Anglican 
Mutual  Responsibility  Com- 
munion and  had  a  profound 
influence  on  the  involvement 
of  the  U.S.  Episcopal 
Churches  with  other 
churches  in  the  Worldwide 
Anglican  Communion.  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  Hannah 
Knowlton  Wright,  four  chil- 
dren, eight  grandchildren, 
and  one  great  grandchild. 

John  Rogers  Crawford,  C'28, 
of  Portland,  Maine,  died  May 
25,  1997.  Born  in  Ensley, 
Ala.,  he  received  his  master's 
degree  from  Tufts  University 
in  1930  after  graduation 
from  Sewanee.  While  at 
Sewanee,  he  was  elected  to 
Phi  Beta  Kappa,  was  secretary 
and  vice  president  of  Sigma 
Epsilon,  president  of  the 
Scholarship  Society,  business 
manager  of  the  Purple,  and 
was  on  the  staff  of  the  Moun- 
tain Goat.  After  teaching 
economics  at  Tufts,  he  served 
during  World  War  II  as  a 
master  sergeant  in  the  U.S. 
Army.  In  1948  he  moved  to 
Maine  and  worked  for  the 
Veterans  Administration, 
retiring  in  1969  as  long  ser- 
vice chief.  During  retirement 
he  divided  his  time  between 
overseas  travel  with  his  wife, 
and  development  work  for 
the  University.  He  was  chair 
of  the  Sewanee  Alumni  class 


from  1975  to  1985.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Eleanor 
Garrettson  Spooner 
Crawford,  a  sister,  a  step- 
daughter, four  grandchil- 
dren, and  six 
great-grandchildren. 


William  Moultrie  Ball,  C'31, 

of  Pinopolis,  S.C.,  died  April 
30,  1997.  During  World  War 
II,  he  was  awarded  the  Le- 
gion of  Merit  by  the  LIS. 
Army  Air  Forces  for  excep- 
tionally meritorious  conduct 
in  the  performance  of  out- 
standing services  in  the 
Southwest  Pacific  area.  Ob- 
taining the  rank  of  captain, 
he  was  an  amphibious  fighter 
control  director  of  a  fighter 
command,  supervising  and 
coordinating  both  amphibi- 
ous and  land  fighter  activi- 
ties. Upon  returning  to  the 
states,  he  was  employed  in 
the  hospital  industry.  At 
Sewanee,  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Order  of  Gownsmen, 
the  Scholarship  Society,  the 
Pan  Hellenic  Council,  Alpha 
Phi  Epsilon.  Sigma  Upsilon, 
and  served  as  both  secretary 
and  president  of  Sigma  Epsi- 
lon. He  also  played  football 
and  basketball. 


The  Rev.  Willis  M. 
Rosenthal,  C'35,  of  Southern 
Pines,  N.C.,  died  April  5, 
1997.  In  1943  he  was  or- 
dained a  priest  in  the  Episco- 
pal Church  and  served 
churches  in  Montana, 
Florida,  Nebraska,  Utah, 
Washington,  Oregon,  Ten- 
nessee, and  North  Carolina 
during  his  ministry.  At 
Sewanee,  he  majored  in  En- 
glish and  French  and  was  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
Pi  Gamma  Mu,  Blue  Key,  and 
the  Honor  Society,  He  also 
played  freshman  varsity  bas- 
ketball and  intramural 
sports.  He  went  on  to  obtain 
degrees  from  the  University 
of  Oklahoma  and  Seabury- 
Western  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  Chicago.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Patricia  Gib- 
bons Rosenthal,  and  a 
daughter. 

John  Percy  Binnington,  C'37, 

of  Brookhaven,  N.Y.,  died 
August  20,  1996.  Born  in 


England  in  1914,  he  was  re- 
tired from  the  Research  Li- 
brary at  Brookhaven 
National  Laboratory,  a  li- 
brary he  helped  establish  in 
1947  and  built  into  one  of 
the  largest  scientific  and 
technical  resources  on  Long 
Island.  An  English  major  at 
Sewanee,  he  was  president  of 
Purple  Masque,  a  member  of 
the  Order  of  Gownsmen,  the 
"S"  Club,  the  Glee  Club,  Al- 
pha Psi  Omega,  and  Delta 
Tau  Delta.   He  earned  addi- 
tional degrees  from  Wesleyan 
University  in  Connecticut 
and  Columbia  University.  An 
active  member  of  Christ  Epis- 
copal Church,  he  was 
awarded  the  rare  distinction 
of  the  Bishop's  Cross.  Survi- 
vors include  his  wife,  Julia  E. 
Binnington,  a  son,  two 
daughters,  two  stepdaugh- 
ters, a  brother,  11  grandchil- 
dren, and  one  great 
grandchild. 


Bruce  Lamar  Burch  Jr,  C'51, 

of  Rome,  Ga.,  died  April  30, 
1997.  He  was  a  beloved 
teacher  and  coach  at 
Darlington  School  in  Rome 
from  1961  until  his  retire- 
ment two  years  ago.  In  1985 
he  was  presented  the  Distin- 
guished Seivice  in  Indepen- 
dent Education  award  by  the 
Georgia  Association  of  Inde- 
pendent Schools.  At 
Sewanee,  he  was  an  English 
major,  and  a  member  of  the 
Order  of  Gownsmen,  the 
Acolytes  Guild,  and  the  "S" 
Club.  Following  graduation, 
he  went  on  to  earn  a  master's 
degree  at  Georgia  State.  He 
is  survived  by  one  son,  Phillip 
Andrew,  a  member  of  the 
U.S.  Navy.  He  was  preceded 
in  death  by  an  infant  son  and 
by  his  wife. 


The  Rev.  John  R.  McGrory 

Jr.,  C'52.  died  June  4,  1997, 
in  Bozeman,  Mont.  A  retired 
priest,  he  spent  the  last  18 
years  of  his  40-year  ministry 
at  St.  James  Episcopal 
Church  in  Bozeman.  He 
majored  in  history  at  the 
University  of  the  South, 
where  he  was  active  in  Purple 
Masque,  Alpha  Psi  Omega, 
the  Acolytes'  Guild,  and  the 
Order  of  Gownsmen.  He 
also  served  as  chief  of  the 


Sewanee  Volunteer  Fire  De- 
partment.  He  went  on  to 
receive  a  Bachelor  of  Sacred 
Theology  degree  from  Gen- 
eral Theological  Seminary  in 
New  York  City  in  1956,  and 
an  MA  from  Creighton  Llni- 
versity  in  Omaha,  Neb.,  in 
1977.  In  1957  he  entered  the 
United  States  Air  Force  chap- 
laincy, serving  20  years  and 
receiving  the  Bronze  Star, 
the  Meritorious  Seivice 
Medal,  the  Air  Force  Com- 
mendation Medal,  and  the 
Vietnamese  Civic  Action 
Medal.  While  at  St.  James, 
he  served  his  diocese  as  chair 
of  the  Christian  Education 
Commission  and  the  Com- 
mission on  Ministry,  and  the 
Bozeman  community  as  a 
member  of  Rotary,  president 
of  the  Gallatin  Valley  Food 
Bank,  and  treasurer  of  the 
Gallatin  County  Ministerial 
Association.  He  is  survived 
by  his  wife,  Jane  Locke 
McGrory,  his  son,  Ramsey  R. 
McGrory,  C'92,  another  son, 
three  daughters,  a  brother, 
and  numerous  friends  and 
other  family  members.  He 
was  preceded  in  death  by 
another  son. 


John  (Jack )  Nichol  Shockley 
Jr.,  C'54,  of  Nashville,  Tenn., 
died  Decembei  12,  1996.  He 
was  president,  founder,  and 
principal  owner  of  Shockley 
Research  Inc.,  the  first  full- 
service  market  research  firm 
in  Nashville.  Shockley  Re- 
search was  considered  a  pio- 
neer in  market  research  in 
the  United  States,  and  the 
Shockley  Report  newsletter, 
which  he  published,  became 
a  staple  in  market  research  in 
Nashville.  After  attending 
Sewanee,  he  earned  a  bach- 
elor of  arts  degree  in  English 
from  Vanderbilt  University 
and,  later,  a  law  degree  from 
the  Nashville  YMCA  Law 
School.  He  was  a  Nashville 
history  buff  and  was  espe- 
cially interested  in  local  Civil 
War  history.  He  is  suivived 
by  three  daughters,  a  sister, 
three  granddaughters,  and  a 
grandson. 


The  Rev.  Dr.  Hunsdon  Cary 
Jr,  T'55,  of  Richmond,  Va., 
died  October  23,  1996.  He 
was  retired  as  rector  of 


Former  Presiding 
Bishop  John  E.  Hines 
Dies,  Leaving  Legacy 
of  Social  Action 


The  Most  Rev.  John  Elbridge 
Hines,  C'30,  H'46,  of  Austin,  Texas, 
22nd  Presiding  Bishop  of  the  Epis- 
copal Church,  died  July  19. 

Hines  grew  up  in  the  small  South 
Carolina  town  of  Seneca,  and  was 
nurtured  in  his  faith  in  a  tiny  Episco- 
pal Church.  After  compiling  an  ex- 
emplary record  in  academics, 
athletics,  and  student  leadership  at 
the  University  of  the  South,  he  gradu- 
ated from  Virginia  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  Alexandria,  Virginia.  Hines's 
first  ministry  was  in  St.  Louis,  Mis- 
souri. He  later  served  a  large  parish  in 
Augusta,  Ga.,  where  he  advocated 
Christian  social  action. 

He  moved  to  Houston  in  1941 
to  become  rector  of  Christ  Church. 
He  served  throughout  the  years  of 
World  War  II  with  distinction  and 
was  elected  bishop  coadjutor  of  die 
Diocese  of  Texas  at  age  34. 

Hines  labored  against  racial  seg- 
regation and  tried  to  increase  the 
number  of  African-American  laity 
and  clergy.  After  becoming  bishop 
of  Texas  in  1955,  Hines  led  his  dio- 
cese through  the  process  of  integrat- 
ing all  of  its  institutions  and 
agencies,  and  urged  Episcopalians 
to  become  advocates  in  the  struggle 
for  civil  rights. 

In  1965,  he  was  elected  presid- 
ing bishop  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 
From  1965-1974.  during  a  time  of 
national  self-appraisal,  Hines  fos- 
tered profound  changes  in  the 
church's  internal  structure  and  out- 
ward focus.  Termed  "a  constantly  ex- 
panding intellect  [with]  staunch 
faith  and  powerful  persuasive  abili- 
ties [and]  love  for  a  good  scrap,"  he 
labeled  himself  a  "theological  con- 
servative and  social  progressive." 

After  retiring,  Hines  lived  for 
nearly  20  years  in  North  Carolina. 
He  remained  mostly  out  of  the  spot- 
light, preaching  infrequendy,  serv- 
ing as  a  guest  lecturer,  and  par- 
ticipating in  the  consecration  of 
bishops.  In  1993  he  and  his  wife 
moved  to  Austin,  Texas,  where 
Helen  Hines  died  in  1996.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  four  sons  and  a  daughter. 

— From  Episcopal  News  Service.  The 
Rev.  Ken  Kesselus  is  rector  of  Calvary 
Episcopal  Church  in  Bastrop,  Texas, 
and  author  of  ilie  book]oYm  E.  Hines, 
Granite  on  Fire. 


The  University  of  the  South 


IN        MEMORIAM 


Bethesda-by-the-Sea  Episco- 
pal Church  in  Palm  Beach, 
Fla.  During  his  ministry,  he 
served  churches  in  Toledo, 
Sandusky,  and  Youngstown, 
Ohio,  before  relocating  to 
Florida.  He  served  as  a 
deputy  to  the  General  Con- 
vention and  president  of  the 
Standing  Committee  in  two 
dioceses.  Survivors  include 
his  wife,  Dorothy  Plummer 
Cary,  a  son,  a  daughter,  two 
brothers,  three  sisters,  and 
five  grandchildren. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  C.  Gilford 
Green  III,  C'61,  of  Fail  hope, 
Ala.,  died  January  22,  1997. 
A  native  of  Plant  City, 
Florida,  he  attended 
Nashotah  House  Seminary 
after  graduating  from 
Sewanee.  He  was  ordained 
to  the  priesthood  in  1964.    A 
philosophy  major  at 
Sewanee,  he  was  a  member 
of  Delta  Tau  Delta  fraternity. 
Phi  Beta  Kappa,  the  Order  of 
Gownsmen,  the  Pan  Hellenic 
Council,  the  Choir,  and  Pi 
Gamma  Mu.  He  was  rector 
of  St.  James  Episcopal 
Church  in  Fairhope  from 
1987  to  1995.  Survivors  in- 
clude his  wife,  Rita  Green. 

Robert  W.  Steves,  C'61,  of 

San  Antonio,  Texas,  died 
March  19,  1997.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Patti  Steves, 
and  a  daughter,  Susan 
Steves,  C'87. 

Charles  Marvin  Robinson, 
C'62,  ot  Miami,  Fla.,  died 
May  8,  1997.  A  banking  pro- 
fessional in  South  Florida  for 
20  years,  he  later  turned  to 
teaching  English  at  Miami 
Beach  High  School,  where 
he  was  working  at  the  time  of 
his  death.  An  English  major 
at  Sewanee,  he  was  co-captain 
of  the  University  swim  team, 
holding  multiple  records  in 
freestyle,  butterfly,  and  relay 
races,  and  was  a  member  of 
Alpha  Tau  Omega  fraternity. 
He  was  a  U.S.  Naval  officer 
and  served  three  tours  in  the 
Mediterranean  and  two  more 
in  Vietnam  during  his  naval 
career.  Survivors  include  his 
wife,  Evelyn  Vieta  Robinson, 
two  daughters,  his  mother, 
and  two  sisters. 


The  Rev.  C.  Murray 
Lancaster,  T'63,  of  Mobile, 
Ala.,  died  January  25,  1997. 
He  was  a  retired  priest  in  the 
Diocese  of  West  Tennessee. 
A  native  of  Forrest  City,  Ark., 
he  was  educated  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Arkansas,  and  then 
the  School  of  Theology  at 
Sewanee.  He  was  ordained 
to  the  priesthood  in  1964, 
and  served  a  number  of 
churches  in  Arkansas,  Missis- 
sippi, and  Tennessee  before 
retiring  in  1995.  He  was  a 
deputy  to  General  Conven- 
tion in  1985.  and  was  a 
former  trustee  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  the  South.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Nancy  M. 
Lancaster,  a  son,  and  three 
grandchildren. 

Jim  Tarwater  Wright,  C65,  of 

Lebanon,  Conn.,  died  April 
17,1997.  He  was  employed 
as  a  salesperson  with  Prides 
Corner  Farms  Inc.  A  forestry 
major  at  Sewanee,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Order  of 
Gownsmen  and  Phi  Gamma 
Delta  fraternity.  He  also 
played  varsity  football.  An 
avid  outdoorsman,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Connecticut 
chapter  of  the  Appalachian 
Mountain  Club.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Kathleen 
Korbich  Wright,  a  son,  two 
stepsons,  a  stepbrother,  a 
stepsister,  and  a  granddaugh- 
ter. 

James  Alston  Steeves,  C'67, 

ol  Birmingham,  Ala.,  died 
January  28,  1997.  Following 
graduation  from  Sewanee,  he 
studied  under  Charles 
Counts,  master  potter,  in 
Rising  Fawn,  Ga.,  freelanced 
briefly  in  New  York  City,  and 
then  returned  to  Birming- 
ham where  he  pursued  his 
life-long  interest  in  horticul- 
ture, becoming  owner  and 
president  of  D.J. 's  Green- 
house Inc.  in  1973.  An  ac- 
knowledged authority  on  the 
identification  and  culture  of 
orchids,  he  was  a  member  of 
the  American  Orchid  Soci- 
ety, the  Alabama  Orchid 
Society,  and  a  past  president 
of  the  Birmingham  Orchid 
Society.   He  also  served  on 
the  board  of  directors  of  the 


Birmingham  Botanical  Gar- 
dens for  many  years.  He  is 
survived  by  his  mother, 
Burges  Rudulph  Steeves,  and 
a  brother. 


Richard  Stough  Haynes, 
C'70,  of  Dallas,  Texas.,  died 
May  11,  1997.  Employed  by 
the  U.S.  Government  since 
1975,  he  was  a  computer 
specialist  and  programmer 
for  the  Health  Care  Financ- 
ing Administration  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  A  math 
majoi  .il  Sew. nice,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Order  of 
Gownsmen  and  was  a  recipi- 
ent of  the  Selby  Scholarship, 
given  to  talented  students  in 
the  fields  of  science.  He 
went  on  to  earn  an  MBA 
from  Southern  Methodist 
University.  Survivors  include 
Ins  wile.  Mcii;;. in  Mvi  it  k 
Haynes,  two  daughters,  his 
parents,  and  a  brother-in-law, 
Conrad  Bonifay  Myrick, 
C'68. 

Don  Cox  Pippen,  C'76,  of 
Leeds,  Ala.,  died  May  11, 
1997.  A  former  assistant 
director  of  admissions  at 
Sewanee,  he  also  served  as 
president  of  Abbo's  Alley. 
During  his  student  years  he 
was  a  member  of  Red  Ribbon 
Society,  commander  of 
Sigma  Nu  fraternity,  and 
wrote  for  the  Purple.  He  was 
an  English  major,  an  all-star 
quarterback  in  football,  and 
was  selected  for  inclusion  in 
Who's  Who  Among  Ameri- 
can Colleges  and  Universi- 
ties. Survivors  include  his 
mother,  Ann  Cox  Pippen, 
and  an  uncle. 

The  Rev.  Samuel  "Mick" 
Mitchell  Burns  Jr.,  T'77,  ol 
Guyton,  Ga.,  died  April  19, 
1997.  Born  in  Asheville, 
N.C.,  and  reared  in  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  he  attended  the  Georgia 
Institute  of  Technology, 
Emory  University,  and  the 
University  of  Georgia.  He 
was  a  Navy  veteran  and 
worked  in  industrial  sales  for 
a  number  of  years  before 
graduating  from  Sewanee's 
School  of  Theology,  where 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Del- 
egate Assembly,  the  External 
Affairs  Committee,  and  the 
Student  Activity  Fee  Commit- 


tee. Following  ordination, 
he  served  churches  in  South 
Dakota,  Wyoming,  and  Geor- 
gia. He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Esther  Zeigler  Burns,  a 
son,  two  daughters,  a 
brother,  four  grandchildren, 
and  his  mother-in-law. 


Doris  Faye  Butt  Lentz,  C'87, 
of  Arlington,  Va.,  has  been 
missing  since  April  1996  and 
is  presumed  dead.  A  memo- 
rial service  was  held  for  her 
May  24,  1997,  at  St.  John's 
Broadcreek  Episcopal 
Church  in  Fort  Washington, 
Md.  After  the  service,  a  tree 
was  planted  at  the  church  in 
her  memory.  A  graduate  of 
Millington  High  School  in 
Millington,  Tenn.,  she  was  a 
political  science  major  at 
Sewanee.  She  worked  for 
Tennessee  Senator  Jim 
Sasser  for  several  years  after 
graduation.  She  is  survived 
by  a  daughter,  Julia  Elaine 
Lentz,  her  mother,  two  sis- 
ters, and  a  brother. 


The  Rev.  C.  Martin  Davis, 
T'91,  died  on  July  16,  1997, 
in  Chattanooga.  A  native  of 
Cleveland,  Tenn.,  Davis 
earned  a  bachelor's  degree  at 
the  University  of  Tennessee 
in  Chattanooga  (UTC)  and 
also  held  a  master's  degree 
from  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia. He  had  served  as  rec- 
tor of  St.  Mary  the  Virgin 
Episcopal  Church  in  Chatta- 
nooga and  became  assistant 
rector  of  Thankful  Memorial 
Episcopal  Church  when  the 
two  churches  merged.  Davis 
served  on  the  Medical  Ethics 
Committee  of  Memorial  Hos- 
pital in  Chattanooga  and 
taught  as  an  adjunct  profes- 
sor at  UTC.  Davis  also 
founded  the  Chattanooga 
Chapter  of  Integrity — the  gay 
and  lesbian  ministry  of  the 
Episcopal  Church,  and  was  a 
past  president  of  Chatta- 
nooga CARES,  which  offers 
case  management  for  people 
with  AIDS  and  HIV.  Survivors 
include  his  mother,  a 
brother,  and  a  sister. 


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About  the 
Cover 

Brenda  Welch 

Belfield  examines 

a  sheet  of  stained 

glass  for  the  All 

Saints'  window 

project  at  the  West 

Virginia  studio  of 

Steven  Stanisic. 

Photo  by 

Mark  Lyons 


Think  October." 
That's  what  Smith  Hempstone,  C'50,  wrote  me 
in  the  summer.  We  were  just  beginning  the 
process  to  publish  his  African  memoir.  Rogue 
Ambassador,  with  the  University  of  the  South  Press. 
Hempstone  knew  in  July  that  things  were  heating  up 
in  Kenya,  where  he  had  served  as  ambassador  from 
1989-93,  and  that  they  would  only  get  worse. 

"There's  blood  in  the     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


editor  of  Reader's  Digest,  says  Hempstone's  "riveting,  rol- 
licking account  of  his  adventures"  is  "an  important — 
and  thoroughly  entertaining — book." 

It's  not  often  that  die  University  of  the  South  Press, 
which  primarily  is  a  disttibution  center  for  books  related 
to  Sewanee  and  die  Episcopal  Church,  gets  to  publish  a 
book  like  Rogue  Ambassador.  We  have  excerpted  a  chap- 
ter from  the  book  for  this  issue.  I  think  you'll  agree  that 

Hempstone  is  a  man  who 


streets  now  in  Nairobi, 
and  there  will  be  more 
by  the  end  of  the  year, 
by  which  time  elections 
must  take  place," 
Hempstone  wrote.  He 
has  seen  his  share  of  vio- 
lence and  unrest  in 
Kenya,  a  place  that  he 
has  known  for  40  years. 
He  initially  traveled  to 
Africa  as  a  foreign  corre- 
spondent in  the  1950s, 
and  since  that  time  he 
has  visited  each  of  the 
continent's  44  nations 
over  the  past  41  years. 

During  his  tumul- 
tuous years  as  ambas- 
sador to  Kenya,  he  was  a 
strong  advocate  for 
democracy  and  human 
rights.  In  Rogue  Ambas- 
sador, he  recounts  his 
struggle  to  push  for  ajust 
government. 

The  people  most 
direcdy  concerned  with 
the  struggle,  Kenya's 
beleaguered  democratic 

opposition,  have  voiced  strong  support  of  Hempstone. 
Paul  Muite,  a  Kenyan  human  rights  lawyer  and  opposi- 
tion member  of  parliament,  says  that  Hempstone  "is  the 
subject  of  song  and  story  among  my  people."  Richard 
Leakey,  world-renowned  paleontologist,  conservationist, 
and  opposition  leader,  finds  Rogue  Ambassador  "written 
with  humor,  authority,  and  an  eye  for  detail." 

The  reaction  to  Rogue  Ambassador  has  been  extraor- 
dinary. Of  Hempstone's  stay  in  Africa,  Brit  Hume  of 
Fox  News  says  "that  he  lived  to  tell  about  it  is  in  itself 
remarkable,  and  so  is  this  book."  Bill  Schulz,  executive 


pulls  no  punches,  either 
as  a  journalist  or  as  a 
politician. 

We  take  you  in  this 
magazine  from  Kenya  to 
All  Saints'  Chapel.  For 
the  first  time  in  15  years, 
a  new  stained  glass  win- 
dow was  installed  in  All 
Saints'.  Several  photog- 
raphers have  document- 
ed the  intricate  process 
of  creating  a  stained 
glass  window.  Brenda 
Belfield,  who  has 
designed  60  windows  for 
the  National  Cathedral, 
spent  hundreds  of  hours 
in  her  studio  to  create 
the  new  "Wisdom 
Window"  in  All  Saints'. 
It  is  a  glorious  work,  and 
we  share  it  with  those 
who  have  not  yet  seen  it 
in  All  Saints'. 

Finally,  we  follow 
Bryan  Buchanan,  C'86, 
and  his  medical  char- 
ges, the  Blue  Angels. 
Buchanan,  a  navy  physi- 
cian, has  the  unique  challenge  of  taking  care  of  one  of 
this  country's  most  elite  flying  squadrons.  It  has  been  a 
dream  of  his  since  he  was  a  boy  growing  up  in 
Pensacola,  Fla. 

"I  talked  to  an  old  suitemate  who  went  straight 
into  residency  and  I  told  him,  'I'm  a  little  envious 
because  you've  got  the  house  and  the  family,'"  says 
Buchanan.  "And  he  cut  me  off  and  said,  'Yeah,  but 
look  at  what  you're  doing.'" 

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SEWANEE/FALL    1997 


CONTENTS 


FEATURES 


COVER        STORY 


Color  k  Light 

For  die  first  time  in  15  years,  a  new 
stained  glass  window  adorns  All  Saints' 
Chapel.  Sewanee  looks  into  the  centuries- 
old  process  of  fabricating  and  installing 
stained  glass. 


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Rogue  Ambassador 

Former  U.S.  ambas- 
sador to  Kenya,  Smith 
Hempstone,  (750, 
was  involved  in  bring- 
ing multiparty  demo- 
cracy to  that  East 
African  republic.  In 
his  new  book  from 
the  University  of  the 
South  Press,  he  has 
written  a  hard-hitting 
account  of  his  time 
there  dur-      __  ^_,^ 
ing  the  I      J 

Bush  years.       *  '   "i 


Doctor  to  Angels 

A  cross  between 
sports  team  physi- 
cian and  family  doc- 
tor, Flight  Surgeon 
Lt.  Bryan 
Buchanan,  C'86, 
keeps  the  U.S. 
Navy's  Blue  Angels 
in  the  air.  Ken 
Morris  talks  with 
Buchanan  about  his 
role  with  one  of  the 
world's  __  ^_^ 

premier  I  w^~*\ 

military  -AV_^ 


DEPARTMENTS 


Vice-Chancellor's 
Corner 

Understanding  the 
calling  of  the  edu- 
cator, the  personal 
investment  and  the 
many  rewards.    y\ 

On  the  Mountain 

The  Rev.  Michael 
Battle's  new  book 
on  Bishop 
Desmond  Tutu's 
Ubuntu  Theology.  • 


Sewanee  spear- 
heads a  prepaid 
tuition  program.  • 
Regents  approve 
new  dining  hall 
design.  •  Will 
Campbell,  H'91, 
examines  Duncan 
Gray  and  the  Ameri- 
can dilemma  in  a 
new  book.  • 
Sewanee's  enroll- 
ment hits  another 
high. 


Sports 


Tigers  center  Ron 
Briggs,  C'98,  is  the 
consummate 
student- 
athlete. 


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Theologia 


Record  registration 
and  packed  lectures 
made  this  year's 
DuBose  Homecom- 
ing memorable. 


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Afterword 

In  the  text  of  his 
dedication  speech 
for  the  Tennessee 
Williams  Center, 
Wyatt  Prunty,  C'69, 
spoke  of  the 
playright's  unique 
relationship  with 
Sewanee. 


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Class  Notes     24 
InMemoriam  33 


SEWANEE 

Fall  1997 

Stephen  Becker 

Vice  President  for  I  faiversily 
Relations 

Robert  Bradford 
Edita 

|oe  Romano 
Associate  Editor 

Ken  Morris 
Art  Dim  lor 

Pat  Kepple 
Class  Notes  Editor 

Associated  Ahmad  Officxvs 

fames  H.  Bratton  Jr.,  C'52 

President 

Philip  ( :.  "Chap"  ]a.  ka  >n  III,  C79 
Vice  President  for  Admission 

William  B.Davis,  (;'(,<) 
\  'iif  President  for  Planned  Giving 

H.  Hunter  Huckabayjr., 

T'69,  T'83 

Vice  President  for  Church  Relations 

Nora  Frances  Stone  MeRae,  C77 

I  'ire  hesidenl  /in  Hiv/uiis 

Laurie  Jarrett  Rogers,  C85 
\  lie  Resident  fur  Career  Services 

Thomas  S.  Rue,  C68 

Vice  President 

fin  {he  Sewanee  Annua! Fund 

Paul  J.  Greeley,  C'54 
\  'ue  President  for  Reunions 

James  K  Yeary,  C'64, 

T'69,  T'89 

\  Ice  President  for  the  Si  hooloj  Theology 

Alumni 

H.W.  'Yogi"  Anderson  ID,  C72 
Executive  Director 
Associated  Alumni 

HwliKjiiphx: 
Stephen  Alvarez,  C87 

Lyn  I  [utchinson 
Charley  Watkins,  T'90 

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The  University  of  the  South 


VICE    CHANCELLOR' 


CORNER 


i  suspect  the  still 

deeper  reason 

that  most  faculty 

become  professors... 

comes  from 

an  unstated 

proposition:  They 

have  in  their 

deepest  being  a 

vocational  calling 

to  the  profession, 

not  just  the  love 

of  learning  or  the 

devotion  to  a 

discipline,  but  a 

belief  that  they 

can  make  a 

genuine  difference. 


The  Privilege  of  the  Call 

hy  do  faculty  teach  and  spend  a  lifetime  in  this 
learning  environment? 

Some  faculty  do  it  simply  because  they  love  die 
subject  matter,  the  discipline,  die  thing  they  teach  and 
study,  and  they  seek  to  engage  other  students  with  their 
excitement  about  the  subject.  Or  as  a  colleague  put  it 
recendy:  They  want  to  be  students  forever.  They  find  in 
their  disciplines  an  intellecUial  and  even  spiritual  chal- 
lenge that  makes  them  spring  out  of  bed  (at  least  most 
mornings)  with  the  hope  diat  they  can  understand  this 
puzzle,  diat  poem,  that  experiment,  or  this  research  task 
with  new  intensity  and  possibly  success. 

If  they  engage  in  serious  research  in  some  areas,  they 
also  hope  diey  can  add  some  fragment  of  knowledge  or 
information  or  interpretation  that  might  have  a  lasting  or 
even  a  momentary  impact  on  the  course  of  die  larger  dis- 
ciplinary discussion.  The  professors  might  call  this  a  search 
for  trudi  and  meaning,  and  in  one  large  sense  it  is  just  that 
an  attempt  to  make  dieir  disciplinary  world  a  part  of  a  larg- 
er intellectual  enterprise.  I  might  add  diat  die  Internet 
capabilities  make  such  exchanges  far  more  likely  for  all  fac- 
ulty, even  those  sitting  on  a  mountain  in  Tennessee. 

But  I  suspect  the  still  deeper  reason  that  most  faculty 
become  professors,  diat  diey  stay  in  a  profession  that  is 
certainly  not  overpaid,  and  diat  they  continue  to  see  it  as 
a  worthwhile  undertaking  comes  from  an  unstated 
proposition:  They  have  in  their  deepest  being  a  voca- 
tional calling  to  the  profession,  not  just  the  love  of  learn- 
ing or  the  devotion  to  a  discipline,  but  a  belief  that  they 
can  make  a  genuine  difference.  We  talk  of  priests  and 
ministers  being  "called" — vocare — and  the  same  is  true  of 
academics.  I  continue  to  believe  that  it  is  Uue  for  a  great 
many  of  my  colleagues. 

I  believe  that  for  many  at  Sewanee  diis  calling  is  also 
fused  with  a  sense  of  a  spiritual  journey  at  this  church- 
owned  institution.  While  not  all  faculty  at  Sewanee  are 
religious  (and  it  might  be  a  dull  place  if  they  were),  most 
see  religion  and  religious  issues  as  serious  parts  of  the 
intellectual  life  of  a  collegiate  institution.  Sewanee  almost 
uniquely  puts  itself  into  that  stance. 

We  pride  ourselves  on  having  real  faculty  teaching 
real  students  (or  diey  seem  real  most  of  die  time).  This 
means  that  the  faculty  are  in  the  classroom,  in  the  lab,  on 
the  field  trip,  accessible  and  available.  What  we  hope  is 
occurring — and  believe  is  occurring — lies  at  the  center 
of  the  educational  undertaking:  a  set  of  professionally 
trained,  imaginative  minds  seeking  to  transmit  their 
insights  and  knowledge,  possibly  even  wisdom,  to  a 
receptive  set  of  imaginative  and  talented  students. 

To  do  this,  faculty  must  prepare  their  class  materials. 
Let  me  give  you  a  personal  example.  Once  a  year  I  teach 
either  a  course  on  intelligence  and  foreign  policy  in  die 
20th  century  or  a  course  on  the  coming  of  the  First  World 
War.  I  have  not  taught  the  intelligence  course  since  1994, 
but  will  do  so  again  next  spring.  Since  I  last  taught  the 
course,  the  world  of  the  Internet  has  arrived.  Rather  than 
having  students  do  a  weekly  two-page  paper  on  a  country 
or  topic  with  information  gleaned  from  the  New  York 
Times,  I  can  set  up  a  Web  page  and  have  diem  read 


English  language  or  native  language  newspapers  from 
around  die  world.  This  technique  alone  will  enhance  my 
course,  make  them  more  effective  intelligence  analysts, 
and  help  diem  compete  in  one  of  die  most  exciting  fea- 
mres  of  die  course:  placing  imaginary  bets  of  what  will 
happen  on  some  important  strategic  or  diplomatic  issue. 

In  all  of  this  teaching  and  learning  there  should  be, 
and  most  obviously  at  Sewanee  diere  will  be,  a  lot  of  sUi- 
dent-faculty  interaction.  This  closeness,  this  interaction, 
the  establishment  of  relationships  are  all  a  part  of  the 
purpose  of  collegiate,  residential  higher  education.  We 
are  here  to  be  a  part  of  a  nearly  continuous  undertaking 
and  of  education,  of  maturation,  of  intellectual  transfor- 
mation, and  of  self-realization. 

So  the  classroom  and  the  interactions  diat  flow  from  it 
constitute  one  part  of  die  professors'  work.  But  so  does 
research  and  intellectual  renewal.  Sewanee  is  not  a 
research  college,  but  we  insist  on  research  for  tenure  and 
for  proof  of  a  continuing  willingness  to  extend  and  expand 
one's  knowledge  and  skills.  We  also  realize  that  professors 
have  career  cycles  in  which  they  may  do  more  of  this,  such 
as  research,  as  opposed  to  administration  or  die  develop- 
ment of  a  technological  skill. 

There  is  still  more.  The  faculty  serve  on  a  myriad  of 
committees,  from  the  incidental  to  five-year  terms,  from 
die  mundane  to  the  very  important  Often  the  commit- 
tee work  will  come  at  night,  late  in  the  afternoon,  and  in 
bunches  of  hours:  four  or  five  a  week.  Such  work  assures 
that  die  enterprise  continues  to  be  collegia]  and  faculty 
led.  In  addition,  many  find  time  to  advise  student  orga- 
nizations, to  time  track  meets  or  keep  score,  to  operate 
diis  or  diat  project,  to  travel  with  a  service  outreach  pro- 
gram, or  to  participate  in  coaching  a  canoe  team. 

What  are  die  results  from  all  of  diis  effort?  First,  we 
hope  and  believe  a  sustained  process  of  intellectual  and 
spiritual  transformation  will  have  taken  place  in  most  stu- 
dents. We  hope  that  the  intensity  of  this  experience  will 
sustain  the  graduate,  will  remind  the  graduate  of  this  spe- 
cial place,  and  will  be  a  beacon  to  subsequent  genera- 
tions. We  hope  our  graduates,  their  parents,  and  their 
friends  will  be  grateful  for  die  wisdom  of  the  Founders  of 
the  University  of  the  South  who  sought  to  create  a  place 
where  the  motto  of  EQB  might  be  lived  out  in  practice, 
creating  a  Domain  of  unity  and  spiritual  grace. 

Our  professors,  who  will  proudly  stand  to  award  the 
degrees  in  fiiUire  May  commencement  dates,  will  say  of  the 
students,  "We  are  proud  of  you  and  wish  you  well  in  your 
future  life  of  learning  and  love  and  adventure."  For  each  of 
us  as  professors,  that  is  one  of  the  really  high  points  of  a  life- 
time of  learning  and  teaching.  We  are  privileged  to  be  pail 
of  the  University  of  the  South  and  to  have  your  sons  and 
daughters  in  our  care.  Thank  you  for  your  trust  and  dieir 
presence. 


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This  essay  is  excerpted  from  Vice-Own  cellar  Williamson 's  speech 
to  parents  during  Parents '  Weekend. 


Sewanee/Fall  1997 


ON         THE         MOUNTAIN 


Dr.  Michael  Battle  Explores  Bishop 
Tutu's  Ubuntu  Theology 


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ilgrim  Press  has  recently  published  Reconciliation: 
The  Ubuntu  Theology  of  Desmond  Tutu,  a  new  book 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Michael  Battle,  assistant  professor 
of  spiritual  and  moral  theology  at  the  School  of 
Theology. 

The  hook  is  an  analysis  ol  Bishop  lulu's  theology  ol 
Ubuntu,  an  African  concept  recognizing  that  persons  and 
groups  form  their  identities  in  relation  to  one  another. 
Ubuntu  is  a  model  for  facilitating  interracial  community 
and  reconciliation  in  South  Africa.  Tutu  received  an  hon- 
orary degree  from  Sewanee  in  1988. 

"Most  people  see  [Tutu]  as  a  politician,"  says  Battle. 
"Not  many  take  him  that  seriously  as  a  theologian.  But 
it's  two  sides  of  the  same  coin — politics  and  theology,  for 
him,  are  of  the  same  fabric." 

Battle's  interest  in  the  South  African  leader  prompt- 
ed him  to  visit  Tutu  in  1992,  while  the  bishop  was  lec- 
turing at  Emory  University  in  Atlanta.  Then  a  graduate 
student  at  Duke  University,  Battle  noted  that  no  one  had 
studied  and  written  about  Tutu's  spirituality.  He  wanted 
to  undertake  that  task  for  his  doctoral  thesis. 

"The  first  thing  he  said  was,  'Let's  pray  about  it,'  and 
titat  helped  verify  my  decision,"  says  Battle. 


What  followed 
was  18  months  of 
studying  Tutu's 
spirituality  and 
politics  in  South 
Africa,  living  in 
the  bishop's 

home,  and  gain- 
ing "full  access" 
to  his  life,  which 
Battle  did  not 
expect  but  which 
certainly  pleased 
him.  While  in 
South  Africa,  he 
met  George 

Carey,  Hillary 
Rodham  Clinton,  Colin  Powell,  and  other  dignitaries.  Battle 
returned  to  the  United  States  in  1994,  following  die  inaugu- 
ration of  Nelson  Mandela.  Since  then,  he  has  visited  South 
Africa  five  times,  most  recently  to  establish  a  student 
exchange  program  for  the  University  of  the  South. 

Battle  hopes  his  book,  adapted  from  his  doctoral  the- 
sis, will  have  a  wider  audience  than  just  the  academic 
community.  He  was  honored  when  Tutu  wrote  the  brief 
"forward"  to  the  book. 

"He  normally  doesn't  write  [those]  because  he  has 
this  humility  about  him,"  says  Battle. 


School  of  Theology  professor 
Michael  Battle  says  "most 
people  see  Tutu  as  a  politi- 
cian. " 


Sewanee  Spearheads  Prepaid  Tuition  Plan 

In  order  to  help  curb  the  cost  of  higher  education, 
the  University  of  the  South  has  entered  into  a 
consortium  with  15  southern  colleges  and  univer- 
sities to  create  a  national  prepaid  tuition  plan.  The 
plan,  now  being  refined,  will  allow  the  prepayment 
of  up  to  100  percent  of  a  child's  future  college 
tuition,  room  and  board  costs  below  today's  rates. 

"Independent  institutions  must  be  imaginative 
and  responsive  to  family  needs  for  funding  higher 
education.  We  believe  this  program  provides  a  way  to 
insure  that  many  families  can  plan  for  independent 
higher  education,  if  they  so  choose,"  said  Vice- 
Chancellor  Samuel  Williamson. 

Participating  with  Sewanee  are  Austin  College, 
Birmingham-Southern  College,  Centenary  College, 
Emory  University,  Furman  University,  the  University 
of  Richmond,  Millsaps  College,  Rhodes  College, 
Randolph-Macon  College,  Rice  University,  Southern 
Methodist  University,  Southwestern  University,  Texas 
Christian  University,  Trinity  University,  and 
Vanderbilt  University. 

"Our  initial  projections  suggest  that  future  guar- 
anteed tuition,  room,  and  board  could  be  purchased 

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for  an  eight-year-old  for  about  75%  of  today's  cost, 
unlike  public  plans  which  require  100  percent  of 
today's  cost,"  according  to  Thomas  Kepple,  vice  pres- 
ident of  business  and  community  relations  at 
Sewanee.  "The  younger  the  child,  the  higher  the  dis- 
count will  be." 

The  plan  will  allow  participants  to  purchase  cer- 
tificates in  $1,000  increments.  Each  of  these  certifi- 
cates will  pay  for  a  guaranteed  percentage  of  tuition, 
room,  and  board,  regardless  of  future  increases. 
Money  contributed  to  the  plan  will  then  be  invested 
and  consortium  members — using  expertise  gained 
from  investing  endowments  of  more  than  $11  bil- 
lion— will  bear  the  risk,  not  participants. 

Among  the  first  groups  the  plan  will  be  marketed 
to  are  the  more  than  half  a  million  alumni  of  the 
member  institutions. 

Consortium  members  also  plan  to  work  toward 
legislation  that  will  provide  participants  in  the  pri- 
vate national  prepayment  plan  with  the  same  tax 
advantages  that  are  extended  to  those  in  public  pro- 
grams. 

"In  the  coming  months,"  said  Kepple,  "we  want  to 
expand  consortium  membership  and  work  to  get  par- 
ticipants the  same  tax  benefits  provided  for  state  pre- 
paid programs." 


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ON         THE         MOUNTAIN 


Regents  Approve  Dining  Hall  Design 


Sewanee's  Board  of  Regents  has  enthusiastically 
endorsed  design  plans  for  the  construction  of  a 
new  dining  hall,  the  University  Commons,  clear- 
ing the  way  for  the  project  to  begin  in  the  spring  of 
1998.  The  board's  approval  concludes  a  process  of 
discussion  among  students,  faculty,  staff,  and  alumni 
that  has  lasted  nearly  two  years,  during  which  many 
proposals  and  suggestions  were  considered. 

Built  completely  of  Sewanee  stone,  the  new  din- 
ing hall  will  replace  Gailor  Hall,  which  was  con- 
structed for  just  500  students.  The  University 
Commons  Will  have  the  capacity  to  serve  three  times 
that  number. 

According  to  project  architect  Malcolm  Holzman, 
the  dining  hall  will  adhere  to  the  Gothic  character  of 
the  campus  while  providing  the  community  with  a 
superb  facility  for  dining.  "The  dining  hall's  promi- 
nent location,  on  University  Avenue,  parallel  to  All 
Saints'  Chapel,  makes  it  especially  important  that  the 
aesthetic  be  compatible  with  that  of  Sewanee's  exist- 
ing buildings,  which  draw  on  several  versions  of  the 
Gothic  style,"  says  Holzman. 

This  aesthetic  is  also  in  keeping  with  the  Board  of 


Regents'  statement  on  architectural  style  of  February 
1996.  "Though  individual  buildings  at  Sewanee  show 
some  variation  in  style,  there  is  still  great  unity  to  the 
campus,"  wrote  the  Regents.  The  new  dining  hall, 
they  said,  will  be  "both  distinctive  and  distinguished 
on  the  outside,  and  remarkable  on  the  inside  for  the 
design  of  its  interior  spaces..." 

University  officials  continue  to  work  with  the 
architect  on  several  design  features  of  the  building, 
including  the  design  and  color  of  the  major  windows, 
the  use  of  the  University  seal,  the  shape,  size  and 
number  of  the  spires,  and  the  entrance  area. 

In  addition  to  the  visual  impact  the  building  will 
have  on  the  campus,  Dean  of  Students  Robert 
Pearigen,  C'76,  says  the  new  dining  facility  will  posi- 
tively affect  student  life.  "A  new  dining  hall  signifies 
our  commitment  for  building  a  better  sense  of  com- 
munity here." 

Funded  by  a  combination  of  donations  to  The 
Campaign  for  Sewanee  and  a  bond  issue,  the  facility 
will  cost  nearly  $13.8  million  and  encompass  approxi- 
mately 42,000  square  feet,  including  a  450-seat  formal 
dining  hall,  250-seat  informal  room,  a  150-seat  outdoor 
dining  area,  as  well  as  four  meeting/dining  rooms,  a 
kitchen,  serving  area,  lobby,  and  storage  space. 


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ON         THE         MOUNTAIN 


Duncan  Gray  and  the 
American  Dilemma 


Will  D.  Campbell,  H'91,  whose  book 
Brother  to  a  Dragonfly  was  listed  by 
the  New  York  Times  as  one  of  the 
best  books  of  1977,  has  written  a  new 
biography  that  traces  the  life  of  former 
University  of  the  South  Chancellor,  the 
Rt.  Rev.  Duncan  M.  Cray  Jr.,  T'53,  H'72. 
And  Abo  with  You:  Duncan  Gray  and  the 
American  Dilemma,  "details  the  self-effac- 
ing priest's  story  told  against  the  back- 
drop of  racial  conflict,"  according  to  the 
book's  publisher,  Providence  House  of 
Franklin,  Tenn. 

The  book  examines  Gray's  life  as  a 
student     at     Sewanee's     School     of 
Theology,    then,   while   serving   at   St. 
Peter's  in  Oxford,  Miss.,  chronicles  his  battle  as  he 
defends  James  Meredith's  arrival  at  the  University  of 
Mississippi  to  a  violent  concentration  of  wrath. 

Intertwined  with  Gray's  account  at  the  state  uni- 
versity is  an  inquiry  of  the  University  Greys,  a  compa- 
ny of  Confederate  soldiers  fighting  battles  of  princi- 
ples quite  the  opposite  of  Duncan  Gray's — yet  stand- 
ing up  for  what  they  believed.  The  Greys,  made  up 
entirely  of  volunteers  recruited  at  or  near  the 
University  of  Mississippi,  suffered  100  percent  casual- 
ties on  the  third  day  of  the  Battle  of  Gettysburg. 

"In  his  skillful  interweaving  of  the  young  Greys' 
sacrificial  deaths  with  Duncan  Gray's  willingness  to 
lay  his  own  life  on  the  line  a  century  later,  Campbell 
shows  unmistakably  and  unforgettably  how  enduring 
the  American  dilemma  [racial  conflict  in  America] 
has  been  and  still  is,"  said  author  John  Egerton. 


Campbell  wrote  And 
Also  with  You  as  a  tribute  to 
Gray,  whom  Campbell 
calls  one  of  his  heroes.  A 
longtime  defender  of  civil 
rights  and  civil  liberties 
himself,  Campbell — a  Mis- 
sissippi native,  preacher, 
lecturer,  and  farmer — 
formed  the  Southern 
Christian  Leadership 
Conference    with    Martin 

Luther  Kingjr.  and  worked  as  a  specialist  in  race  relations  for 
the  National  Council  of  Churches. 

And  Also  with  You:  Duncan  Gray  and  the  American 
Dilemma  is  available  through  bookstores  or  by  calling 
Providence  House  Publishers  at  1-800-321-5692. 


Enrollment  Hits  Another  High 

For  the  sixth  consecutive  year,  undergraduate 
enrollment  at  Sewanee  has  reached  an  all-time 
record.  For  the  fall  semester,  a  total  of  1,293  have 
enrolled  in  the  University's  College  of  Aits  and 
Sciences,  compared  with  1,266  one  year  ago. 
Sewanee's  undergraduate  freshman  class,  at  365,  is 
among  the  largest  ever  to  enter  the  University,  and  it 
was  selected  from  a  record  number  of  applicants. 

This  year's  undergraduate  enrollment  represents 
a  17  percent  increase  in  Sewanee's  student  body  over 
the  past  six  years,  since  1991.  Sewanee  students  come 
from  47  states  and  20  different  countries,  with  the 
largest  single  group,  at  20  percent  of  the  student 


population,  from  Tennessee.  The  remainder  travel 
to  Sewanee  from  states  spanning  Washington  to 
Maine. 

"The  undergraduate  growth  is  part  of  the 
University's  strategic  plan  to  have  1,300  students  in 
the  College  of  Arts  and  Science  by  the  end  of  the 
decade,"  said  Vice-Chancellor  Samuel  Williamson. 
"We  are  pleased  to  have  such  a  superb  group  of 
undergraduate  students. " 

Enrollment  continues  to  be  strong  at  the  School 
of  Theology  as  well.  This  fall,  total  enrollment  at  the 
seminary  is  81  students,  up  from  80  a  year  ago. 
School  of  Theology  students  represent  33  dioceses, 
with  many  from  the  Southeast  and  others  coming 
from  as  far  away  as  Honduras,  Montana,  and  the  Rio 
Grande. 


The  University  of  the  South 


Color  & 

Light 


On  a  bright  day  in  September 
the  work  began.  For  the  first 
time  in  15  years,  workers  were 
installing  a  new  stained  glass 
window  in  All  Saints'  Chapel. 
It  was  the  end  of  a  process  that 
began   several  years  ago  when   Dr.   Lome 
Semran,  a  Jackson,  Tenn.,  clinical  psychologist, 
first  set  foot  in  All  Saints'.  "When  I  walked  into 
the  chapel,   it  reminded  me  of  home,   of 
England  and  Canada.  I  feel  very  much  at  home 
each  time  I  enter  All  Saints'  Chapel," 
recalls  Semran.  He  wanted  to  create  a 
new  window  in  memory  of  his 
father     and     to     honor     the 
Episcopal  Church. 

Semrau  worked  with  the 
Rev.    Tom    Ward,    C'67, 
University  chaplain,  and 
stained  glass  artist  Brenda 
Belfield  on  the  design 
and  themes  of  the  win- 
dow.    The     'Wisdom 
Window"  is  Belfield's 
first     design     in     All 
Saints'.  Her  work,  how- 
ever, spans  the  globe, 
from   Sicily   to   Saudi 
Arabia  to  the  Washing- 
ton  Cathedral,  where 
she  has  completed  60 
windows. 

The  new  "Wisdom 
Window"  in  All 
Saints',  says  Ward, 
"represents  a  wed- 
ding between  the 
institution's  ongoing 
need  to  tell  the  story 
of  the  Church  and 
Dr.  Semrau's  desire 
to  give  something  to 
Sewanee."  In  the  fol- 
lowing pages,  we  tell 
the  story  of  the  ere-  ft 
ation  and  installation  | 
of  the  window. 

The  University  of  the  South 


Opposite  Page:  Stained  glass  artist  Brenda 
Belfield.  works  on  the  details  of  the  Wisdom 
Window  for  All  Saints'  Chapel.  Wisdom,  which 
is  personified  as  feminine  in  the  Writings  por- 
tion of  the  Old  Testament,  is  the  unifying  symbol 
of  the  window.  Above:  Belfield  works  with  a 
piece  of  blue  glass.  The  blue  glass  used  for  the 
Heavens  in  the  "Writings  "  window  is  called 
"flash  glass,  "  a  variety  of  antique  glass. 
LEFT:  the  complete  Wisdom  Window. 


Clockwise:  The  Blenko  Studio  in  Milton, 
W.Va..  demonstrated  the  art  of  blowing  a 
cylindrical  form  of  hot  glass.  This  form  is 
lowered  into  a  mold,  and  the  resulting 
cylinders  are  scored  and  fired  in  a  kiln 
where  they  open  up  to  form  a  sheet.  A  tem- 
plate is  created  for  each  section  of  the  win- 
dow before  it  is  cut;  the  final  work  contains 
several  thousand  pieces.  Below:  Bel  field 
works  with  color  and  light  to  ensure  that 
the  window's  diverse  range  of  colors  will  be 
integrated. 


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Color  & 
Light 


LEFT.  Steven  Stanisic,  master  artisan  and  owner 
of  the  Stained  Glass  Atelier  in  Huntington, 
W.Va.,  cuts  the  patterns  for  the  glass  and  lays 
them  out  on  the  glazing  diagram.  Bottom  left: 
Stanisic  steadies  himself  in  an  empty  window 
frame  at  All  Saints'  before  the  final  installation 
of  the  window.  Below:  Anthony  Jones  prepares 
to  install  18  stained  glass  panels  for  the 
"Wisdom  Window.  " 


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Sewanee/Fall  1997 


Smith  Hempstone,  Cj50,  knows  Africa.  And  he 
knows  how  to  tell  a  story.  In  a  new  book  published  by  the 
University  of  the  South  Press,  Hempstone  has  written  a 
rollicking,  hard-hitting  account  of  his  years  as  ambas- 
sador to  Kenya  during  the  Bush  administration. 


BY  SMI  II  i:  HEMPSTONE 

n  December  26,  1989, 
Donald  K  Petterson, 
the  career  officer  who 
was  the  U.S.  ambas- 
sador to  Tanzania 
and  my  immediate 
neighbor  to  the  south,  sent  a  cable  to 
Secretary  of  State  Baker,  with  copies  to 
Under  Secretary  Robert  Kimmett  and 
Assistant  Secretary  Herman  Cohen. 

In  it,  Petterson,  who  was  later  to 
serve    in    Zimbabwe    and    Sudan, 
noted  that  the  Cold  War,  which  had 
driven     our    African     policy     for 
decades,  was  over.  He  suggested  that 
perhaps  it  was  time  to  develop  with 
our  Western  allies  an  African  policy 
that  more  explicitly  and  broadly  tied 
development      aid      to      political 
reforms,     specifically,     movement 
toward   democracy.   Cohen   copied 
the   Petterson   telegram,  which  he 
said  was  "very  much  in  line"  with  his 
own  thinking,  to  all  U.S.  embassies 
in  Africa  and  called  a  meeting  in 
Washington  of  all  American  ambas- 
sadors serving  in  Africa  to  discuss 
the  issue  on  April  9-12,  1990. 
In  principle  I  had  no  problem 
I  with  the  Petterson  cable.  While  the 
Cold  War  had  compelled  the  U.S. 
to  support  some  extremely  unsa- 
vory characters  in  Africa  and  else- 
where, the  Russians,  as  Petterson 
had  pointed  out,  apparently  were 
|  out  of  the  game.  Under  these 
altered  circumstances  there  was 
no  reason  for  the  U.S.,  as  the 
Ble  remaining  superpower,  to  sup- 
port tyrants.  Now,  if  ever  there  was 
one,  was  the  time  to  push  Jeffersonian 
democracy  abroad.  Having  said  that,  I 


did  feel  that  supporters  of  such  a  pol- 
icy were  gravely  underestimating  the 
difficulties  of  implementing  such  a 
blanket  policy  in  Africa.  I  wrote  to 
Cohen  on  January  11,  1990,  pointing 
out  the  problems  uiat  one  might  rea- 
sonably expect  to  encounter. 

The  notion  that  there  were 
strong  parallels  between  the  dra- 
matic flowering  of  freedom  in 
Eastern  Europe  in  recent  months 
and  future  events  in  Africa  once  the 
one-party  system  had  withered  away 
or  been  overthrown  ignored  the 
vast  cultural  and  political  chasm 
separating  the  two  continents. 
Eastern  Europe  since  the  French 
Revolution  had  been  exposed  to 
the  intellectual  currents  that 
shaped  the  West.  All  these  nations, 
including  Russia,  had  experienced 
at  least  sporadic  experiments  in 
multiparty  democracy. 

This  had  not  been  the  case  in 
Africa.  In  precolonial  times  most  of 
Africa  was  organized  politically 
along  authoritarian  lines,  under 
the  rule  of  chiefs  or  councils  of 
tribal  elders.  Discussion  of  issues 
was  permitted  up  to  a  point,  but 
everyone  was  expected  and 
required  to  support  the  collective 
decision.  The  concept  of  "loyal 
opposition,"  so  fundamental  to  the 
practice  of  democracy  in  the  West, 
was  alien  to  Africa.  Dissent  too  fre- 
quently was  equated  with  sedition. . . . 

Democracy  had  evolved  in 
northern  Europe  and  North 
America  out  of  a  set  of  historical 
and  economic  circumstances  to 
meet  the  needs  and  aspirations  of 
its  people.  Because  multiparty 
democracy  has  worked  reasonably 


well  in  parts  of  the  West,  I  wrote, 
that  does  not  necessarily  mean  it 
will  flourish  in  Africa.  Nor  is  it 
graven  in  stone  that  there  cannot 
be  a  reasonable  degree  of  freedom 
under  a  single-party  system.  While 
African  elites  are  the  partial  inheri- 
tors of  Western  political  thought, 
the  majority  of  Africans  still  dance 
to  the  compelling  and  better 
understood  beat  of  a  more  ancient 
tribal  drum.  I  conceded  that  the 
difficulty  in  fostering  African 
democracy  was  not  a  sufficient 
excuse  for  failing  to  try,  but  I  point- 
ed out  that  our  ability  to  impose 
democracy  was  limited,  and  that 
Africa  had  a  history  of  swallowing 
civilizations  and  ideologies  whole. 

As  for  Kenya  I  admitted  that  it  was 
neither  an  ideal  society  nor  a  per- 
fect state.  Yet  for  the  26  years  since 
independence,  its  two  authoritarian 
presidents  had  preserved  the  peace, 
providing  stability,  economic  oppor- 
tunity, and  at  least  a  modicum  of 
political  choice  under  civilian  gov- 
ernments. Kenya  had  been  an  island 
of  relative  tranquility  in  a  sea  of 
chaos  and  violence.  This  was,  in  my 
view,  no  mean  accomplishment. 

President  Daniel  arap  Moi,  I  con- 
ceded, was  no  Thomas  Jeffer-son. 
But  neither  was  he,  as  some  of  his 
critics  suggested,  a  Caligula.  Like 
most  flawed,  imperfect  human  be- 
ings, he  fell  somewhere  between 
those  two  extremes. 

Africa,  I  wrote,  was  too  large, 
complex,  and  diverse  to  be  dealt 
with  by  a  policy  based  on  feel-good, 
bumper-sticker  sloganeering,  no 
matter  how  high-minded.  And  this 
suggested   that   tailor-made   diplo- 


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macy 
our  var- 
ious am-bas- 
lors,  to  fit 
:al  circum- 
stances, was  likely 
be  more  successful 
lan  the  off-the-rack,  fits- 
-sizes  variety. 
By  all  means,  I  concluded, 
us  encourage  the  birth  and 
rowth  of  democracy  in  Africa. 
^But  let  us  concede  that  we  do  not 
have  all  the  answers.  Frequently  we 
do  not  even  ask  the  right  questions. 
Africa  needs  our  help;  it  also  needs 
our  understanding.  We  have  to 
accept  it  for  what  it  is  rather  than 
for  what  we  may  want  it  to  be.  The 
nations  of  Africa,  like  all  others, 
must  work  out  their  own  destinies. 

Cohen  thanked  me  for  my  letter 
and  invited  me  to  serve  on  the 
panel  of  ambassadors  dealing  with 
political  change.  Clearly  I  was  to  be 
cast  in  the  role  of  devil's  advocate, 
opposed  to  motherhood  and  apple 
pie.... 

I  had  been  back  in  Kenya  from 
the  conference  only  two  weeks 
before  I  had  my  run-in  with  Shariff 
Nassir  in  Mombasa  on  the  issue  of 
multiparty  democracy.  I  was  mildly 
irritated  that  the  media,  perhaps  on 
Kenyan  government  insistence,  had 
failed  to  report  my  words,  while  giv- 
ing full  play  to  Nassir.  I  resolved  to 
find  another  more  auspicious  occa- 
sion to  get  my  point  across. 

As  it  happened,  I  had  a  long- 
standing commitment  to  address  a 
luncheon  meeting  on  May  3  of  a 
most  revolutionary  forum,  the 
Rotary  Club  of  Nairobi.  When  I 
reached  the  once  elegant  but  now 
rather  seedy  New  Stanley  Hotel 
promptly  at  noon  on  the  appointed 
day,  the  banquet  room  was  packed. 
Perhaps  20  percent  of  the  Rotarians 
present  were  Africans,  40  percent 


I  Asians,   and  40  percent  white. 

^"he  television  cameras  were 
there,  and  I  had  taken  the  precau- 
tion of  sending  a  text  of  my  speech 
to  the  three  daily  newspapers,  both 
television  stations,  and  several 
weekly  magazines. 

The  early  part  of  my  speech  was 
pretty  routine  stuff  about  American 
trade  with  and  investment  in  Kenya. 


Africa, 

I  WROTE, 

z&as  too 

large, 

complex, 

and  diverse 

to  be  dealt 

z&ith  by  a 

policy 
based  on 
feel-good, 
bumper- 
sticker 
sloganeering, 
no  matter 
hoz&  high- 
minded. 


I  deplored  the  fact  that  the 
United  States  had  only  a  five-percent 
share  of  the  Kenya  market,  a  situa- 
tion that  I  hoped  to  start  rectifying 
on  May  9,  when  President  Moi  was 
scheduled  to  open  the  first-ever 
American  trade  show  in  East  Africa. 
This  was  to  be  held  at  the  Nairobi 
Hilton  with  more  than  20  American 
corporations  displaying  their  wares. 
I  got  into  the  meat  of  the  thing 


toward  the  end  of  my  speech  when  I 
told  the  Rotarians  that  "a  strong 
political  tide  is  flowing  in  our 
Congress,  which  controls  the  purse 
strings,  to  concentrate  our  econom- 
ic assistance  on  those  of  the  world's 
nations  that  nourish  democratic 
institutions,  defend  human  rights, 
and  practice  multiparty  politics."  I 
said  it  was  not  my  duty  to  insuuct  the 
Kenyan  government  on  how  to  gov- 
ern its  citizens,  and  I  did  not  pre- 
sume to  do  so.  I  was  merely  relating 
a  fact  of  political  life  in  America 
today  which  might  become  a  fact  of 
political  life  in  other  donor  nations 
tomorrow.  I  said  that  I  was  telling 
them  this  "because  I  want  to  see  a 
stable,  happy,  and  prosperous 
Kenya"  in  the  years  ahead.  I  added 
that  "all  of  us  want  to  see  Kenya  suc- 
ceed, and  I  for  one  believe  it  can  do 
so  under  the  leadership  of  President 
Moi."  I  conceded  that  everything 
could  not  be  accomplished 
overnight,  "but  let  us  make  a  start 
today."  To  create  an  enabling  envi- 
ronment for  U.S.  and  other  foreign 
investors,  Kenya  had  to  speed  up  the 
repatriation  of  profits  and  dividends, 
make  a  serious  effort  to  curb  cor- 
ruption and  influence-peddling,  jet- 
tison cumbersome  regulations  and 
procedures,  and  privatize  uncom- 
petitive parastatals.  Africa's  economy 
was  growing  at  an  annual  rate  of  only 
half  of  one  percent,  as  compared  to 
eight  percent  in  East  Asia,  4.8  per- 
cent in  South  Asia,  and  14  percent  in 
Latin  America.  With  Eastern  Europe 
opening  up,  the  competition  was 
bound  to  become  tougher,  and  the 
hour  was  late. 

None  of  this  struck  me  as  particu- 
larly inflammatory,  but  "U.S. 
Mounts  Pressure  for  Multi-Parties" 
headlined  the  next  morning's 
Nation,  Kenya's  largest  and  most 
responsible  daily.  "Don't  dictate  to 
us,"  huffed  Kolonzo  Musyoka,  then 
organizing  secretary  of  the  Kenya 
African  National  Union  and  now 
the  country's  foreign  minister. 
Burudi  Nabwera,  minister  of  state  in 
the  Office  of  the  President  (and  a 
former   ambassador   to   the   U.S.), 


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ordered  the  provincial  administra- 
tions to  monitor  my  movements  out- 
side of  Nairobi.  Elijah  Mwangale,  the 
minister  of  livestock  development 
and  the  most  ardent  of  the  Moi  toad- 
ies— in  a  speech  at  the  coast,  he 
asserted  that  even  the  fish  in  the  sea 
bowed  down  before  the  president — 
accused  me  of  financially  supporting 
the  Kenyan  dissidents.  The  foreign 
office  told  me,  only  three  days 
before  it  was  due  to  happen,  that 
Moi  would  not  open  the  U.S.  trade 
fair  on  May  9.  Aside  from  characteriz- 
ing Mwangale's  accusation  as  "arrant 
nonsense,"  I  did  not  respond  to  the 
blasts  from  the  government. 

The  intensity  of  the 
Kenya  African  Nation- 
al Union  reaction 
unquestionably  was 
fueled  by  a  coinci- 
dence: my  Rotary 
Club  speech  was  delivered  the  same 
day  that  two  former  Kikuyu  cabinet 
ministers,  Kenneth  Matiba  and 
Charles  Rubia,  announced  the  forma- 
tion of  a  movement  (not  a  political 
party,  which  would  have  been  illegal) 
called  the  Forum  for  the  Restoration 
of  Democracy,  known  by  its  acronym, 
FORD.  They  called  for  the  repeal  of 
Article  2(a)  of  the  Constitution,  estab- 
lishing KANU  as  the  only  legal  politi- 
cal party,  demanded  new  elections — 
those  of  1988  had  been  blatantly  cor- 
rupt even  by  Kenyan  standards — and 
a  limit  on  presidential  tenure  to  two 
four-year  terms.  Moi  immediately 
denounced  Matiba  and  Rubia  as  trai- 
tors "in  the  pay  of  foreign  powers." 

There  was  no  collusion  between 
myself  and  the  leaders  of  FORD, 
although  Moi  apparently  does  not 
believe  that  to  this  day.  I  had  had 
about  four  hours'  notice  of  the 
FORD  initiative  when  three  young 
dissidents — the  Kikuyu  lawyer  Paul 
Muite,  the  Meru  publisher  Gitobu 
Imanyara,  and  the  Luo  business- 
man Raila  Odinga  (the  son  of 
Kenya's  first  vice-president,  Oginga 
Odinga) — came  to  the  embassy  to 
brief  me.  I  gave  the  trio  a  sympa- 
thetic hearing  but  promised  them 
nothing.    Since    the    secret   police 


monitored  everyone  who  came  to 
the  American  embassy,  they 
undoubtedly  knew  of  the  presence 
of  the  three  young  FORD  leaders. 
And  from  this  the  government 
leaped  to  the  false  conclusion  that 
I  was  organizing  and  financing 
FORD.  The  FORD  leaders  may 
have  done  nothing  to  discourage 
this  false  assumption. 

I  was  left  with  a  problem:  while  it 
was  American  policy  for  me  to 
encourage  the  expansion  of 
democracy  in  Kenya,  it  was  also 
American  policy  that  I  should  do 
what  I  could  to  increase  the  sale  of 
American  goods  in  Kenya.  That  is 
why,  with  the  able  assistance  of  my 
commercial  attache,  Dick  Benson, 
and  Mary  Pope  Waring,  I  had  orga- 
nized the  first  American  trade  fair 
in  East  Africa  and  prevailed  upon 
Moi  to  open  it.  Benson  and  Waring 
had  persuaded  more  than 
20American  corporations  to  buy 
booths  at  the  show,  and  a  gala 
opening  was  planned  for  the  three- 
day  affair.  If  Moi  backed  out,  as  the 
foreign  office  said  he  intended  to 
do,  no  government  official  or 
KANU  member  would  dare  attend, 
many  faint-hearted  local  business- 
men would  stay  away,  and  some  of 
the  exhibitors  might  withdraw  their 
support.  The  trade  fair  would  be  a 
flop.  On  the  other  hand,  if  Moi  did 
open  the  show  and  did  so  in  a  con- 
ciliatory fashion,  it  would  be  a  rous- 
ing success,  causing  dismay  and 
confusion  among  the  America- 
haters  in  the  government.  Clearly  I 
had  to  work  quickly  and  quietly. 

I  did  not  ask  to  see  Moi.  If  I  did  so, 
Foreign  Minister  Wilson  Ndolo  Ayah, 
a  member  of  the  anti-American  camp, 
was  very  likely  to  be  there.  Instead  I 
sent  Moi,  through  a  back  channel,  a 
personal,  handwritten  letter.  I  did  not 
back  off  my  political  stance.  I  told  Moi 
that  it  was  President  Bush's  policy  to 
support  the  expansion  of  democracy 
in  Africa,  and  that  I  was  charged  with 
implementing  that  policy  (against  all 
logic,  however,  he  persisted  in  believ- 
ing that  I  was  acting  on  my  own).  I 
told  him  I  had  intended  no  disrespect 


for  him  personally  nor  to  the  Office  of 
the  President.  Indeed,  if  Kenya  was  to 
enter  a  new  era  of  multiparty  politics 
and  clean  government,  I  and  the  U.S. 
government  would  prefer  that  he  lead 
the  movement  (which  was  true). 
Change,  I  insisted,  was  inevitable.  The 
choice  was  between  becoming  the 
beneficiary  of  change,  or  its  victim.  I 
would  help  if  he  wanted  me  to.  But 
even  if  we  disagreed  politically,  good 
economic  relations  were  in  the  inter- 
est of  both  countries.  The  trade  fair 
would  help  to  promote  such  relations 
and  could  increase  American  invest- 
ment in  Kenya.  I  urged  him,  in  the 
interest  of  Kenya,  to  stick  by  his  com- 
mitment to  open  the  trade  fair. 

May  9,  the  day  of  the  opening, 
arrived,  and  I  had  heard  nothing 
from  Moi.  As  the  carpenters  and 
electricians  completed  their  work 
and  the  last  piece  of  red,  white,  and 
blue  bunting  was  tacked  into  place, 
I  called  the  exhibitors  together  and 
told  them  that  Moi  might  not  be 
coming.  If  he  did  not,  I  would  open 
the  show.  Their  dismay  was  obvious. 
Finally,  an  hour  before  the  show  was 
due  to  open,  my  deputy  chief  of 
mission,  out  of  breath  but  obviously 
exhilarated,  ran  up  the  steps  to  the 
mezzanine  floor  of  the  Hilton. 

"I  don't  know  how  you  did  it,"  he 
gasped,  "but  Moi  is  coming: 
Kiplagat  just  called  me." 

"For  sure?" 

"For  sure.  There's  an  army  of 
security  thugs  downstairs  begin- 
ning their  sweep  of  the  place.  The 
president's  chair  will  be  arriving 
any  moment,  and  protocol  says  he 
must  have  a  dais." 

Clearly  God  was  on  my  side. 


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A  CROSS  BETWEEN  SPORTS 
TEAM  PHYSICIAN  AND  MARCOS 
WELBY,  II  BRYAN  BUCHANAN. 
C'86,  KEEPS  THE  U.S.  HAWS 
BLUE  ANGELS  FLYING. 


comes  without  warning.  The  air  splits  as 
though  someone  ripped  a  piece  of  tent 
canvas  overhead,  loud  enough  to  feel  it  in  the  ribcage.  A  pho- 
tographer ducks  and  someone  curses.  Overhead,  with  power, 
streaks  a  high-tech  dart  in  blue  and  yellow  chasing  five  others 
distant  to  form  up  with  them  in  a  triangle:  the  leader  in  front, 
two  behind  him,  two — now  three — in  the  rear.  The  six  F/ A- 18 
Hornets  climb  together  until  they  fade  into  the  haze,  a  distant 
delta  pattern  imprinted  on  the  sky  like  a  moving  wallpaper 
motif,  climbing  and  arching  into  a  loop.  Directly  above  and  on 
their  backs — inverted — they  begin  their  plunge,  still  in  forma- 
tion and  accelerating,- with  white  smoke  tracing  the  trajectory. 
Faster,  faster,  there!  The  six  split  at  equal  angles  in  curving 


jfiy^S' 


downward    pathos, 
smoke     tracing     what 
looks    like    an    upside 
down  trumpet  bell.  As  a 
plane  turns  tight  for  the 
next    maneuver,    water 
vapor    flashes    over    die 
wings  in   shock  waves,   a 
phenomenon  of  lift,  speed, 
and  high   humidity.   One 
observer  smiles  and  nods. 
"Okay  vapes,"  he  says. 

Navy  Lt.  Bryan  Buch- 
anan points  at  one  of  the 
jets,    following    it,    mak- 
ing mental  notes 
which  he  quickly 
jots   onto    a   file 


BY  KEN  MORRIS 

PHOTOGRAPHY  BY  MANUEL  CHAVEZ 

card,  looking  again  into  the  Pensacola  sky 
to  acquire  them  for  the  next  maneuver. 

Over  the  runway,  the  U.S.  Navy's  Blue 
Angels  flight  demonstration  squadron 
has  been  practicing  their  dangerous  aer- 
ial ballet:  soaring,  climbing,  zooming — 
sometimes  as  close  as  21  inches  cockpit- 
to-wing — sometimes  playing  chicken  at 
a  combined  head-on  airspeed  of  nearly 
1,000  knots,  sometimes  in  incredibly 
tight  turns  boosting  a  pilot's  relative 
weight  to  nearly  1,500  pounds— seven- 
and-a-half  gravi ties,  or  "G's" — for  19  sec- 
onds.    And  Lt.  Buchanan  scrutinizes 
each  maneuver  for  form  and  function, 
jotting  notes  for  the  critique  that  follows 
each  performance. 

He"  has  been  watching  the  Pensacola 


Below:  Buchanan  spots  for 
a  Blue  Angels  videogra- 
pher,  helping  him  find 
planes  through  the  haze. 
The  video  will  help  the 
team  in  its  debriefing. 
RIGHT:  Ground  crew  mem- 
bers watch  four  of  the  Blue 
Angels  perform  a  climb  in 
tight  formation. 


sky  since  he  was  six,  when  he  and  his  brother 
would  pilfer  their  father's  binoculars  and  sit  on 
the  roof  to  watch  the  Blue  Angels  practice  over 
the  nearby  naval  air  station.  Now  his  brother  is 
a  commercial  pilot  and  Bryan  is  flight  surgeon 
to  the  elite  navy  squadron  he  idolized  as  a  boy. 

Buchanan  is  33,  single,  and  sometimes 
wowed  by  his  job  with  "the  Blues."  He  is  as  out- 
wardly confident  as  the  pilots  he  calls  his 
patients,  showing  almost  teenage  enthusiasm 
accented  by  an  Atidie  Murphy  aw-shucks 
smile.  Those  he  works  with  say  he  is  a  good  fit 
here,  and  just  like  his  pilots,  Buchanan  is  at 
the  top  of  his  career  as  flight  surgeon. 

In  the  second  floor  offices  in  the  Blue 
Angels  hangar,  Buchanan's  modest  clinic  is  bet- 
ter than  average  as  flight  surgeons  go,  he  says — 
roughly  eight  feet  by  14  feet  in  basic  navy  gray. 
In  the  corner  is  a  gray  medicine  cabinet  with 
stainless  steel  and  glass  doors.  Gray 's  Anatomy  is 
on  one  shelf,  tongue  depressors  and  gauze  jars 
sit  on  another.  The  examination  table  takes  up 
the  lion's  share  of  space.  His  clipboard  bears 
the  name  "Witch" — one  of  Buchanan's  earlier 
call  signs — short  for  witch  doctor.  Along  with 
Buchanan's  desk  is  another  near  the  window 
for  his  corpsman,  "Baby  Doc."  Ever  present  is 
the  high-pitched  whine  of  jet  engines.  The  win- 
dow overlooks  eight  blue  and  yellow  jets  sitting 
on  the  tarmac,  canopies  open,  maintenance 
men  polishing  the  Plexiglas. 

Officially,  Buchanan  serves  first  as  both 
team  physician  and  Marcus  Welby  for  the  Blue 
Angels  pilots  and  staff.  In  addition  to  learning 
about  average  human  maladies,  military  flight 
surgeons  have  to  recognize  effects  of  high  alti- 
tude and  high  speed  flight — positive  G's  push- 
ing the  blood  out  of  your  head  and  to  your 
feet,  negative  G's  where  everything's  going  up 
to  your  head  prilling  yon  out  of  your  seat, 


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hypoxia,  disorienting  conditions,  changes  in 
air  pressure,  and  other  causes  and  effects  with 
exotic,  barely  pronounceable  names — along 
with  the  psychophysical  stress  of  performing 
on  the  edsre. 

After  graduation  at  Sewanee, 
Buchanan  attended  medical 
school  at  the  University  of 
Alabama  as  a  naval  reservist, 
the  navy  picking  np 
the  tab  through  a 
highly  competitive 
scholarship  program.  While 
average  medical  school  stu- 
dents dream  about  country  clubs  and  a  two 
story  colonial  near  the  third  tee,  Buchanan 
says  he  couldn't  wait  to  get  into  a  fighter,  and 
the  navy  is  the  only  branch  of  service  requir- 
ing flight  surgeons  to  go  through  flight  train- 
ing. "It  was  really  tough.  It  gave  me  a  lot  of 
insight  into  what  these  guys  go  through 
preparing." 

Buchanan  said  he  entered  flight  school 
with  "a  little  bit  of  attitude." 

"I  said,  'Hey,  I  went  through  Sewanee,  I 
went  through  comps,  I  went  through  medical 
school,  and  doggone  it  I'm  gonna  whip  this  in 
the  pants' — I  studied  my  butt  off. 

"I  had  a  little  runway  set  out  in  my  living 
room  and  I  would  walk  around  the  room  and 
make  all  my  calls.  Every  flight  is  an  oral  exam. 
You  get  quizzed  before  you  fly  then  you  go 
crawl  into  the  plane."  Then,  Buchanan  says, 
the  "90  percent  rule"  comes  into  play:  "Ninety 
percent  of  what  you  knew  on  the  ground  leaves 
you.  You  kinda  go  'bla- 
h-h-h'  and  you're  work- 
ing on  monkey  skills." 
While  Buchanan 
trained  in  a  standard 
navy  turboprop  T-34, 
he  isn't  qualified  to 
pilot  the  high-perfor- 
mance jets  his  charges 
fly.  He  hitches  a  ride  in 
a  two-seat  variant  of 
the  F/A-18  whenever 
he  can,  and  sometimes 
they'll  let  him  take  the 
stick  in  the  back  seat 
for  a  while  flying 
between  air  shows. 

"My  orders  call  for 
duty  involving  flying. 
One  of  the  ways  I  get  a 


better  feel  for  what  they're  doing  in  the  air  is 
to  go  tip  with  them  and  see  what  it  looks  like." 
Buchanan  says  he  has  flown  with  several  pilots 
at  his  various  duty  stations,  but  flying  with  a 
Blue  Angels  pilot  is  considerably  different. 
The  first  time  he  flew  with  the  four- 
plane  diamond  for- 
mation 


[there  are 
also  two  soloists]  was  in  New  Orleans  last  year. 
"The  planes  at  their  closest  are  about  21  inch- 
es apart  wing  tip-to-canopy  and  everything  is 
moving  around.  I  momentarily  touched  the 
ejection  handle — not  to  pull  it — but  I  just 
went,  'Okay,  there  it  is.'" 

The  F/A-18,  used  by  navy  and  marine  pilots 
as  well  as  the  Blue  Angels,  is  so  nimble  that  the 
manufacturer  designed  inhibitors  into  the  air- 
frame to  keep  pilots  from  exceeding  their  own 
capabilities.  'The  planes  can  really  outperform 
us,"  Buchanan  said.  'Therein  lies  a  bit  of  dan- 
ger because  the  guys  have  to  know  what  they 
can  do  and  what  the  jet  is  capable  of  and  keep 
the  two  close  together.  Certain  people  can  take 
G's  a  little  bit  better.  It  adds  a  variable  into  it." 

According  to  Buchanan,  fighter  pilots 
today  have  to  be  in  peak  athletic  physical  form 
to  fly  a  high-performance  jet,  especially  the 
Blue  Angels  pilots  who  fly  without  benefit  of  a 


IHE  P1ANES 
AI  THEIR 
CLOSEST  ARE 
ABOUT  21 
INCHES  APART 
WING  TIPTO 
CANOPY  AND 
EVERYTHING 
IS  MOVING 
AROOHD.  I 
MOMENTARILY 
TOUCHED  THE 
EJECTION 
HANDLE- 
NOT  TO 
PULL  IT- 
HUT  I  JUST 
WENT,  OKAY, 
THERE  IT  IS: 


Buchanan  in  his  small, 
but  functional  flight  sur- 
geon 's  office. 


The  University  of  the  South 


irs  MY  JOB 

TO  BE  THEBE 

ALL  IHE 

TIME— TO  BE 

AN  INTEGBAL 

PART  OF  TNE 

SQUADRON. 

SO  IF  THEY 

SEE  ME 

SLIDING  INTO 

SECOND  BASE 

AT  A  SOFTBALL 

GAME,  IT 

BUILDS  UP  A 

TRUST. 


Below:  Buchanan  with 
fellow  Sewanee  classmate 
Rick  Wood  C'87,  and  his 
three-year-old  son,  Matt  of 
Ft.  Worth,  Texas,  after  a 
Blue  Angels  performance. 
Right:  As  apart  of  the 
team.  Buchanan  enthusias- 
tically signs  autographs. 


G-suit — standard  issue  to  fighter  pilots  to  coun- 
teract high  G-forces  in  tight  turns.  Special 
pockets  in  the  G-suit  thighs  unpredictably 
inflate  and  could  bump  the  extra-sensitive  con- 
trol stick  durins  close  formation  flying.  The 
Blue  Angels  pilots  control  upper  body  blood 
flow  during  high-G  turns  by  grunting  loudly 
and  repeatedly — like  dry  heaves  in  rhythm — to 
force  blood  back  to  the  head  and  avoid  black- 
ing out.  While  Buchanan  says  the  technique 
has  been  around  since  diere  have  been  jets,  he 
oversees  a  rigorous  weight  trailing  program  to 
keep  the  Blue  Angels  pilots  in  top  form. 

Even  a  common  cold  can  give  a  pilot  a  bad 
day.  "There  was  a  case  overseas  of  a  pilot  who 
had  a  sinus  infection  and  he  kept  it  secret. 
His  cabin  pressurization  wasn't  working  well, 
and  he  blew  a  sinus.  He  had  to  have  surgery 
and  he  was  out  of  the  cockpit  for  almost  a 
year,"  Buchanan  says.  "If  he'd  have  just  kept 
things  in  perspective  he  could  have  been  fly- 
ing probably  in  seven  days  or  sooner." 

Military  pilots  are  traditionally  wary  of  doc- 
tors since  they  have  the  power  to  ground  them. 
A  visit  for  something  seemingly  minor  can  have 
a  pilot  flying  a  desk.  In  his  book  The  Right  Stuff, 
author  Tom  Wolfe  says  high  performance  pilots 
look  at  flight  surgeons  as  "natural  enemies." 
Marine  Major  Pat  Cooke,  the  number  two  pilot 
clockwise  in  the  diamond,  agrees  with  the 
stereotype,  but  says  professionalism  and  his  rela- 
tionship with  Buchanan  keep  things  in  balance. 
"Everybody  is  wary  of  bringing  a  problem  up  to 
their  flight  surgeon.  At  the  same  time,  we 
know — especially  here  at  die  Blue  Angels — you 


come  second  to  the  overall  team.  If  I  were  to  fly 
knowing  I  had  a  medical  problem... I  would  real- 
ly be  selling  my  teammates  short. 

"Most  flight  surgeons  fit  in  very  well  in  the 
squadron  life,"  Cooke,  a  former  Top  Gun 
instructor,  says.  "They're  about  the  same  age, 
they  share  the  same  interests.  Most  of  the  fleet 
pilots  feel  very  comfortable  with  their  doctors. 
Hopefully,  you've  got  confidence  in  your 
flight  surgeon  that  he's  not  going  to  see  one 
of  these  red  flags  go  up  and  take  you  out  of 
the  ball  game  early." 

uchanan  said  grounding  a  pilot 
is  the  "least  favorite"  part  of  his 
job,  and  he  believes  in  the  rela- 
tionship he  has  with  the  pilots.  T 
feel  like  they  tell  me  what's  going 
on  widi  dieir  lives.  I  flew  on  every 
type  of  mission  my  squadrons 
flew.  I  was  there  at  weddings,  at  a 
funeral,  when  folks  got  promot- 
ed, when  folks  had  birthdays.  It's  my  job  to  be 
there  all  the  time — to  be  an  integral  part  of  die 
squadron,  so  if  they  see  me  sliding  into  second 
base  at  a  Softball  game,  it  builds  up  a  trust. 

"I  have  die  most  contact  widi  any  of  the  pilots. 
I  share  a  car  widi  number  two.  When  we  go  to 
winter  training  we  live  next  door  to  each  odier. 
I  am  die  community  doctor.  The  more  I  see  die 
more  it  helps  me  see.  My  door  is  always  open." 
Rian  Dom,  wife  of  the  lead  pilot,  navy  Cmdr. 
George  Dom,  says  Buchanan  goes  out  of  his  way 
to  take  care  of  the  pilots  and  their  families. 
'There  have  been  times  when  family  members 
have  been  sick  and  the  minute  he  gets  off  die  C- 

130  or  out  of  the 
back  seat  he  is  at 
dieir  door.  He's 
pretty  exception- 
al." 

Buchanan  says 
his  career  puts  in 
contact  two  type  A 
personalities  that 
are  very  much 
alike.  "Pilots  have 
their  checklists, 
dieir  briefing  pro- 
cedures; they're 
very  methodical. 
Physicians  are  as 
well.  You  have  a 
checklist  for  symp- 
toms on  a  pa- 
tient, a  checklist 
for  your  differen- 
tial diagnosis,  and 

SEWANEE/FALL    1997 


yon  try  to  compartmentalize  things." 

As  a  flight  surgeon,  Buchanan  sizes  up 
pilots,  knowing  what  traditionally  makes  a  suc- 
cessful naval  aviator.  A  good  pilot  has  to  have  a 
healthy  dose  of  attitude  to  be  worth  his  salt. 
'You  want  somebody  in  the  air  who's  gonna 
think  he's  the  baddest  one  in  the  skies...  'Yea- 
t  h  ough-I-walk-th  rough-th  e-vall  ey-of-th  e-sh  ad- 
ow-of-death-I-will-fear-no-evil-cause  I'm  the 
baddest  flyer  in  the  valley'  One  of  my  pilots  in 
another  squadron  would  strut  around  and  say 
that,  but  he  could  back  it  up.  He  routinely  out- 
flew  air  force  F-I5s  north  of  Japan. 

"Most  of  these  guys  [the  Blue  Angels]  have 
either  been  students  or  instructors  at  Top 
Gun,  or  been  adversary  pilots  at  adversary 
squadrons.  One  guy  is  the  out-of-control  flight 
expert  for  the  Tomcat.  The  boss  [Dom]  has 
flown  combat  missions  in  Libya  and  Desert 
Storm.  Four  of  the  guys  flew  in  the  Gulf  war." 

With  that  set  of  credentials,  Buchanan  is 
careful  about  his  choice  of  words  as  one  of 
the  flying  team's  official  critics.  During  per- 
formances, Buchanan  stands  next  to  a  com- 
munications cart  watching  every  move,  mark- 
ing observations,  and  picking  the  formation 
out  of  the  haze  to  cue  the  team  videographer. 
After  the  routine,  the  pilots  and  observers  cri- 
tique the  show,  Buchanan  lending  a  specta- 
tor's eye  view.  "Does  the  smoke  come  on  at 
the  same  time?  When  they  go  up  is  anyone 
out  of  position?  I  was  awful  when  I  first  start- 
ed. I  said,  'Hey,  blue  jets  in  the  sky!  They  look 
beautiful!'  " 

Now,  he  looks  at  the  notecards  and  has  the 
jargon  down.  "Go  down  to  the  double  farvel 
[an  actual  term  derived  from  "fabulous"  and 
"marvelous"]  where  number  one  and  num- 


ber four  are  inverted  and  you've  got  neat 
perspective  on  that... for  the  double  farvel 
they  had  matched  timing  on  the  roll  in  but 
four  overbanked  and  climbed.  The  smoke 
was  okay... When  they  climbed  out  and 
pushed  down  on  the  stick... they  did  a  mis- 
matched turn  so  their  wings  weren't 
matched..."  Sometimes  the  critiques  are 
tough  and  the  pilots  question  the  call, 
but  the  video  is  there  to  back  him 
up — or  prove  him  wrong,  which, 
Buchanan  says  hap- 
pens on  occa- 
sion. Cooke  says 
Buchanan's  critiques  are  valua 
to  him  and  his  teammates.  "I'm 
not  going  to  go  up  to  a  Van  Gogh 
and  look  at  it  two  feet  away,  I'm  going  to  step 
back  and  look  at  it.  His  perspective  is  the  one 
that's  the  most  valuable.  I  want  to  see  [the 
performance]  unfold  as  the  team." 

The  hardest  part  of  the  job  is  the  travel,  some- 
times at  die  pace  of  a  rock  star,  says  Buchanan. 
"I  love  it,  but  it  gets  hard  after  a  while.  My  par- 
ents still  live  here  in  town.  I've  seen  them  for  a 
total  of  40  minutes  this  week.  When  you  go  on 
the  ship,  it's  a  six  month  cruise  and  then  you're 
home.  We're  traveling  300  days  out  of  the  year, 
so  it's  like  being  on  a  cruise  for  two  years." 

"I  come  back  [from  traveling]  and  have  a  sci- 
ence experiment  growing  in  my  refrigerator.  I 
have  tons  of  laundry.  I  really  don't  have  any- 
body to  help  me  do  that,  but  by  the  same  token 
I  don't  have  anybody  I'm  leaving  behind  300 
days  out  of  the  year.  I  don't  have  to  call  the  kids 
and  say,  'Oh,  Daddy's  in  Fargo,  or  San  Francisco 
this  weekend.' 

"I  talked  to  an  old  suitemate  of  mine  who 

went  straight 
into  residency 
and  I  did  this, 
and  I  told  him, 
'I'm  a  little  envi- 
ous because 
you've  got  the 
house  and  the 
family'  And  he 
cut  me  off  and 
said,  'Yeah, but 
look  at  what 
you  'redoing.'" 


Buchanan  and  his 
corpsman,  "Baby  Doc" 
HM2(AW)  David  M. 
Greenier,  right,  encourage 
future  corps-men  on  afield 
trip  to  a  Blue  Angels 
demonstration. 


The  University  of  the  South 


O    R    T    S 


Poetry  In  Motion 

BY    LARRY    DAGENHART 

Ask  anyone  who  knows  him:  Ron  Briggs,  C'98,  is 
special.  He  starts  every  foothall  game  at  center 
for  the  Tigers,  and  he  does  a  whole  lot  more. 
He  writes  poetry;  he  speaks  Spanish;  he's  a  Benedict 
Scholar  with  a  3.8  GPA.  He  even  participates  in  the 
Sewanee  Writers'  Conference.  Two  years  ago  he 
declared  two  majors;  he  also  earned  his  gown  the 
fall  of  his  sophomore  year,  the  earliest  possible 
time. 

Those  student-athletes  every  coach  in  the  nation 
brags  about?  Briggs  is  one  of  the  genuine  articles. 
"He  is  a  selfless  team  player,  has  an  endless  work 


Ron  Briggs,  left, 

receives  a  $10,000 

check  from  Burger 

King  on  behalf  oj 

Sewanee. 


ethic,  and  is  just  an  outstanding  individual,"  says 
assistant  football  coach  Al  Logan,  Ron's  position 
coach. 

An  English  and  Spanish  major  from  Maryville, 
Tenn.,  Briggs  is  a  humble  young  man,  yet  a  fierce 
competitor.  And  he  has  been  on  a  winning  streak 
since  his  senior  year  at  Maryville  High  School.  In 
addition  to  the  Benedict,  Briggs  was  awarded  both  a 
National  Merit  Scholarship  and  a  Ned  McWherter 
Scholarship,  which  is  used  by  a  Tennessee  resident 
toward  tuition  at  any  college  or  university  in  the 
state. 

In  1994,  he  won  the  Robert  Woodham  Daniels 
Prize  in  Expository  Writing,  which  honors  the  best 
freshman  essay  on  a  set  text.  He  also  placed  second 
in  the  1995  Bain-Swiggett  poetry  contest. 

Recently,  Briggs  received  two  significant  football 
awards.  In  November  1996,  he  was  named  to  the 
GTE  Academic  All-American  College  Football  Team 
by    the    College    Sports    Information    Directors    of 


America.  Representing  NCAA  Divisions  II  and  III,  as 
well  as  NAIA  schools,  Briggs  was  one  of  50  players 
named.  Only  10  were  offensive  linemen. 

This  past  September,  Briggs  was  selected  as  a 
1997  Burger  King  College  Football  Scholarship 
award  winner.  The  University  received  a  $10,000 
donation  in  Briggs's  honor,  which  will  be  used 
toward  the  general  scholarship  fund. 

His  greatest  accomplishment?  "Definitely  the 
opportunity  to  be  here  on  a  Benedict  Scholarship," 
he  says.  "It  was  a  big  deal  and  I  was  very  surprised. 
Basically  [Sewanee]  said,  'Here's  an  education.'  It 
was  a  tremendous  opportunity." 

Try  to  get  Briggs  to  comment  on  all  these  honors, 
and  you'll  be  the  one  doing  the  talking.  "It's  always 
nice  to  get  awards,  but  I've  been  lucky.  I  do  the 
things  I  like  to  do,  and  it  isn't  hard  to  study  for  a  lit- 
erature class  if  I'm  interested  in  what 
I'm  reading."  Briggs  puts  the  same  atti- 
tude toward  his  sport:  "It  isn't  hard  to 
lift  weights  and  prepare  for  football  if 
I'm  interested  in  playing  a  lot  of  downs 
this  season." 

In  spite  of  growing  up  relatively  close 
to  Sewanee,  Briggs  was  not  all  that  famil- 
iar with  the  University  while  attending 
Maryville  High  School.  "I  knew  it  was  a 
game  Maryville  College  played  every 
year,"  he  jokes.  "I  liked  the  location,  and 
when  I  visited  I  sensed  a  real  communi- 
ty. That  drew  me  here."  Briggs,  who  has 
been  serious  about  writing  poetry  since 
high  school,  was  also  drawn  to  Sewanee 
by  the  excellent  reputation  of  its  English 
department.  Since  his  freshman  year, 
Briggs  has  pursued  writing  and  poetry 
under  the  wing  of  Professor  Wyatt 
Prunty,  C'69,  his  advisor  and  director  of 
the  Sewanee  Writers'  Conference.  "Ron  does  so 
many  different  things  so  well;  he  is  like  a  natural 
resource,"  says  Prunty.  Briggs  is  a  regular  contributor 
to  the  Mountain  Goat,  Sewanee's  student  literary 
magazine. 

Besides  willing,  something  Briggs  always  wauled 
to  do  was  play  football  in  college.  "I  definitely  want- 
ed my  experience  of  college  football  to  be  on  the 
field  and  not  in  the  stands,"  he  says. 

Amidst  all  his  writing,  academics,  and  football, 
Briggs  has  applied  for  a  Rhodes  Scholarship,  a 
Fulbright  Scholarship,  and  has  an  excellent  chance 
at  winning  a  post-graduate  scholarship  from  the 
NCAA  or  the  National  Football  Foundation. 

Involved  with  so  many  activities,  Briggs  manages 
a  true  balancing  act.  But  he  is  the  type  who  gives 
everything  his  all,  no  matter  what  he's  doing.  "I  put 
as  much  of  myself  into  it  as  I  can,"  he  says.  "It's  not 
as  much  fun  to  do  it  halfway." 


22 


Sewanee/Fall  1997 


THEOLOGIA 


A  Memorable  DuBose  Homecoming 

1  think  William  Porcher  DuBose — priest,  theologian, 
dean,  chaplain,  and  in  many  ways  founding  father 
of  the  School  of  Theology — would  have  been  quite 
pleased  with  this  year's  lectures  et  erf.  which  bear  his 
name  and  honor  his  memory.  We  had  the  largest  reg- 
istration on  record;  a  sustained  attendance  for  all 
three  lectures  that  literally  fdled  the  considerable 
space  of  Convocation  Hall;  a  celebratory  sung  St. 
Luke's  Day  (transferred)  Eucharist  with  a  fine  ser- 
mon by  the  new  professor  of  homiletics;  an  excellent 
dinner-dance  for  350  people  at  which  we  raised  up 
this  year's  Faithful  Alumni/a  and  gave  special  recog- 
nition to  two  emeritus  professors;  and  a  good  45th 
reunion  for  the  class  of  '57. 

The  numbers  were  wonderful.  It  was  a  first 
DuBose  for  many  alums,  some  who  had  graduated  15- 
20  years  ago.  Recent  classes  were  well-represented, 
actively  continuing  those  personal  ties  that  we  hope 
will  last  a  lifetime.  After  each  lecture  and  at  the  social 
events,  faculty  members  found  themselves  at  the  cen- 
ter of  clusters  of  former  and  current  students.  One 
junior  expressed  the  feeling  that  this  was  the  kind  of 
experience  she  had  hoped  seminary  would  be.  The 
routine  disciplines  of  theological  education  and  spir- 
itual formation  are  necessary  and  important;  but 
enthusiasm  like  that  which  accompanied  these 
DuBose  lectures  can  also  be  a  significant  energizer 
for  the  whole  mission  of  the  seminary. 

Numbers,  even  big  numbers,  without  substance 
can  be  hollow  and  often  disillusioning.  But  we  had 
great  numbers  and  terrific  substance.  While  not 
everyone  agreed  with  all  of  his  arguments  or  perhaps 
even  with  his  basic  approach,  the  responses  were 
overwhelmingly  positive  to  the  three  lectures  given, 
on  Jesus'  resurrection,  by  the  Very  Rev.  N.  T  Wright, 
the  dean  of  Lichfield  Cathedral  and  former  professor 
of  biblical  studies  at  Oxford.  Tom  Wright's  talks  were 
grounded  in  a  deep  knowledge  of  the  religion,  cul- 
ture, and  languages  of  the  first  century,  but  he  also 
related  his  insights  to  our  own  time,  our  issues,  and 
our  lives.  The  question,  "What  does  it  mean  to  be  a 
Christian  in  a  largely  pagan,  hostile,  or  indifferent 
world?"  is  just  as  compelling  today  as  it  was  in  the 
decades  immediately  following  Jesus'  death  and  res- 
urrection. The  participants  in  this  year's  conference 
remained  actively  engaged  through  each  of  the  lec- 
tures, in  the  question  and  answer  sessions,  and  in 
numerous  conversations  that  spilled  out  onto  the 
lawns  and  sidewalks  during  the  two  beautiful  days  of 
crisp  air  and  bright  sunshine. 


It  was  wonderful  to  worship  with  so  many,  many 
friends,  old  and  new,  in  a  seriously  overflowing 
Hamilton  Hall  chapel,  cramped  quarters  that  made 
us  eagerly  look  forward  to  the  larger  and  more  beau- 
tiful holy  space  of  the  Chapel  of  the  Apostles.  The 
choir,  whose  size  and  quality  surprised  even  recent 
grads,  was  in  great  voice.  Neil  Alexander  was  quasi- 
officially  welcomed  into  his  homiletical  domain 
(actually  he  has  already  preached  several  times  at  the 
daily  eucharists  and  at  All  Saints').  And,  after  the 
Eucharist,  we  dedicated  the  Class  of  '97  cross  which 
now  adorns  the  front  roof  of  Hamilton  Hall. 

The  evening's  festivities  had  a  serious  and  celebra- 
tory side.  For  the  fifth  year,  we  honored  several  grad- 
uates as  Faithful  Alums,  men  and  women  who  have 
served  the  church  faithfully  whenever  God  and  cir- 
cumstance has  called  them,  people  whom  we  want  to 
hold  up  as  models  to  our  recent,  current,  and  future 
students.  This  year  we  added  the  names  of  Carmen 
Guerrero,  Harry  Bainbridge,  and  Bob  Ratelle.  Two 
former  honorees,  Bob  Abstein  and  Hunter  Huckabay, 
also  graced  us  with  their  presence.  The  program  part 
of  the  evening  came  to  a  close  when  I  presented 
School  of  Theology  citations  to  Stiles  Lines,  marking 
the  60th  anniversary  of  his  ordination  to  the  priest- 
hood, and  to  Howard  Rhys,  on  his  80th  birthday  and 
in  recognition  of  more  than  40  years  as  vicar  of  St. 
John's,  Battle  Creek.  Bishop  Tharp  also  made  Father 
Rhys  an  honorary  canon  of  the  Diocese  of  East 
Tennessee.  Both  Peggys  were  there,  so  we  got  the 
chance  to  thank  all  four  of  these  folks  for  what  they 
have  meant  and  continue  to  mean  to  Sewanee. 

Now  we  begin  to  plan  for  next  year:  another  topic, 
perhaps  a  different  format,  but — we  hope — the  same 
great  spirit.  If  you  came  this  year,  it  was  wonderful  to 
see  you;  and  I  suspect  that  you  will  want  to  return 
every  year.  If  you  could  not  get  here  in  1997,  start 
planning  for  1998.  We  missed  you  and  hope  to  see 
you  then. 


-The  Very  Reverend  Guy  Fitch  Lytle  III,  Dean 


The  routine 
disciplines  of 

theological 
education  and 

spiritual 

formation  are 

necessary  and 

important;  but 

enthusiasm  like 

that  which 

accompanied 
these  DuBose 

lectures  can 

ALSO   BE   A 

SIGNIFICANT 

ENERGIZER    FOR  THE 

WHOLE    MISSION   OF 

THE    SEMINARY. 


The  University  of  the  South 


CLASS        NOTES 


'43 


Mr.  W.  Sperry  Lee 
4323  Forest  Park  Road 
Jacksonville,  FL  32210 

Charles  Mullen  Jr.  and  his 

wife  welcomed  their  fourth 
Ureal  grandchild  recently. 
Herbert  "Gene"  Winn  and  his 
wife,  Sarah,  run  a  bookstore, 
Media  Futures,  from  their 
home  in  Ochelata,  Okla. 
Gene  is  a  retired  library  direc- 
tor and  is  on  the  Metropolitan 
Planning  Commission  in 
Bartlesrille.  They  welcomed 
their  first  great  grandchild  in 
April  of  this  year. 


Tech  University  in  Ruston. 
Bob  Woodson  is  retired  from 
the  State  of  Texas,  and  enjoys 
traveling  and  assisting  his  rec- 
tor with  administrative  duties. 


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Mr.  Robert  Webb 
P.  ().  Box  6108 
Louisville,  KY  40206 

Lucien  Brailsford  is  med- 
ical director  at  the  St. 
Luke's  Free  Medical  Clinic 
in  Spartanburg,  S.C.   He 
recently  received  the  Dr. 
Sam  O.  Black  Jr.  Health 
Promotion  Award  to  honor 
his  service  to  the  clnnt 


'52 


Mr.  R.  Andrew  Duma n 
5408  Crescent  Dr. 
Tampa,  FL  33611 

Sanford  Garner  was  presented 
the  Officer  Award  from  the 
Order  of  the  British  Empire 
on  Sept  12,  1997,  at  the 
British  Embassy  in 
Washington,  D.C.  Stanton 
Hueyjr.  was  initiated  into  the 
National  Civil  Engineering 
Honor  Society,  Chi  Epsilon, 
on  April  22,  1997,  at  Lmisiana 


'59 


Dr.  Charles  M.  Upchurch 
4008  Nunn  Road,  S.E. 
Huntsville,  AL  35802 

Walter  Smith  is  a  consul- 
tant with  Drake  Beam 
Morin  Inc.  in  Houston, 
Texas.   He  is  president  of 
DBM  Colombia  and  presi- 
dent of  Team  Resources 
Colombia  in  Bogota, 
Colombia. 


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Mr.  Robert  Rust 
4461  Kohler  Drive 
AUmtovm,  PA    18103-6029 

Robert  Schneider  married 
Maria  Lichtmann  on  July 
19,  1997,  in  Berea,  Ky.   Ms. 
Lichtmann  is  a  colleague  of 
Bob's  at  Berea  College, 
where  she  teaches  religious 
studies  and  is  a  campus 
minister. 


'62 


Mr.  William  Landis  Turner 

107  Leslie  Lane 

Hohenwald,  TN  38462-1100 

Richard  Tillinghast  pub- 
lished two  new  books  this 
year.    Today  in  the  Cafe 
Trieste  is  a  collection  of  his 
new  and  selected  poems, 
from  Salmon  Publishing  in 
Ireland.   A  Visit  to  the 
Gallery,  which  Richard  edit- 
ed, is  a  collection  of  poems 
written  in  response  to 
works  of  art  in  the  Museum 
of  Art  at  the  University  of 
Michigan;  reproductions  of 
the  art  works  are  printed 
side  by  side  with  the  poems 
(University  of  Michigan 
Press).   Tom  Waddell  is 
retired  from  the  U.S. 
Environmental  Protection 
Agency  and  now  works  as  a 
private  consultant  and  is 
pursuing  an  M.Div.  at 
Gordon-Conwell 
Theological  Seminary  in 
Hamilton,  Mass. 


'63 


John  Buss  and  his  wife, 
Chiara,  live  in  Milan,  Italy, 
where  John  works  in  the 
banking  industry. 


64 


Col.  lark  A.  Roysterjr. 
1880  Shellbrook  Drive 
Huntsville,  AL  35806 

Larry  Majors  married  Lucy 
O'Neal  on  July  12,  1997,  in 
Sewanee. 


'65 


Mr.  Douglas  Milne 
4595  Lexington  Avenue,  #100 
Jacksonville,  FL  32210-2058 
Allen  Hainge  recently  was  a 


featured  speaker  at  the 
National  Association  of 
Realtors'  national  conven- 
tion.  He  presented  his 
seminar,  "On-Line! 
Making  Money  on  the 
Internet."   Simms 
McDowell  III  practices  law 
in  Charleston,  S.C.   He  is 
married  and  has  two 
daughters.   Morgan  Ray  Sr. 
and  his  wife,  Cheryl,  live  in 
Slidell,  La.,  where  Morgan 
is  employed  with 
Lockheed/Martin. 


'66 


Mr.  John  Day  Peake 
First  Alabama  Bank 
P.  O.  Drawer  2527 
Mobile,  AL  36622 

Paul  Joslin  is  professor 
emeritus  at  Drake 
University  in  Iowa.  He 
retired  from  university 
teaching  in  1992,  worked 
two  years  for  Computer 
Telecommunications 
Network  for  K-l  2  educa- 
tion, was  a  visiting  scholar 
in  Australia,  and  now  is 
active  in  Friendship  Force. 


'67 


Cdr.  Albert  S.  Polk 
2101  Harbor  Drive 
Annapolis,  MD  21401 

Sandford  Estes  is  a  physi- 
cian in  Charleston,  S.C. 
He  and  his  wife,  Toi 
Alliens,  have  four  sons. 
Joel  Smith  just  completed 
his  first  season  as  chair  of 
the  Spoleto  Festival  USA 
board  in  South  Carolina. 
He  is  president  of 
NationsBank  Carolinas. 


69 


Mr.  Dennis  M.  Hall 

2919  Momington  Drive,  NW 

Atlanta,  GA  30327 

J.  Robert  Brown  was  admit- 
ted to  the  Bar  of  the 
United  States  Supreme 
Court  on  June  2,  1997.    He 
is  assistant  general  counsel 
of  the  State  Bar  of  Georgia, 
fellow  of  Emory's  Center 
for  Ethics  in  the 
Professions,  and  an 
Episcopal  priest. 


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CLASS         NOTES 


'70 


Mr.  foh  >i  W.  Tonissen 
Massachusetts  Mutual  Life 
P.  0.  Box  36218 
Charlotte,  NC   28204 

Bill  Beecken  recently 
earned  an  M.B.A.  from 
Brenau  University.   Tim 
Dargan  and  his  wife, 
Caroline,  live  in 
Darlington,  S.C.  They  have 
two  sons,  Timothy  (C'97) 
and  Ellerbe  (COO).   Robert 
Green  Jr.  has  been  serving 
as  chair  of  the  Department 
of  Curriculum  and 
Instruction  at  Clemson 
University  for  the  past  two 
years.  He  still  competes  in 
master's  track  and  field, 
placing  second  in  USATF 
National  Master's  Indoor 
Pentathlon  in  March  1997 
and  third  in  USATF 
National  Master's  Indoor 
Heptathlon  in  April  1997. 
George  Hart  Jr.  is  a  real 
estate  manager  for  Orange 
City,  Fla.   Eric  Newman 
recently  was  inducted  as 
president  of  the  Rotary 
Club  of  Tampa,  the  second 
oldest  Rotary  Club  in 
Florida.    Chris  Zanis  lives 
in  Geneva,  111.,  where  he  is 
studying  for  the  Orthodox 
Catholic  priesthood. 


'71 


Mr.  Herndon  Inge 

2153  Ashland  Place  Avenue 

Mobile,  AL  36607 

Todd  Ison  is  managing 
attorney  for  USAA's 
Western  Regional  Office  in 
Sacramento,  Calif.   He 
recently  competed  in  the 
California  International 
Marathon,  the  Wildflower 
Triathlon,  and  the 
Markleeville  Death  Ride. 
He  plans  to  compete  in  the 
Canadian  Ironman 
Triathlon  in  the  future. 


75 


Mr.  Robert  T.  Coleman 
The  Liberty  Corporation 
P.  0.  Box  789 
Greenville,  SC  29615 

Mike  Foreman  recently  was 
named  principal  of  East 
Middle  School  in 
Tullahoma,  Tenn.   Lee 


Stapleton  graduated  from 
St.  George's  University 
School  of  Medicine  in  June 
1997,  and  began  her  resi- 
dency in  family  practice  at 
East  Tennessee  State 
University  in  July.   Melissa 
Weatherly  recently  began 
new  duties  as  residency 
coordinator  in  family  prac- 
tice at  the  University  of 
Virginia  Hospital  in 
Charlottesville,  Va. 


'77 


Ms.  Nora  Frances  McRae 
1515  North  State  Street 
Jackson,  MS  39202 

Sam  Howell  was  appointed 
chair  of  the  Charleston, 
S.C,  State  Election 
Commission  in  August 
1997.   He  is  a  partner  in 
the  law  firm  of 
Haynesworth,  Marion, 
McKay  and  Guerard,  spe- 
cializing in  governmental 
law,  public  finance,  and 
business  transactions.    He 
and  his  wife,  Lavinia,  have 
three  children.  William 
Loftis  recently  was  named 
director  of  ADD  Inc.,  an 
architectural  firm  in  San 
Francisco,  Calif,  where  he 
now  lives.   Tom  Potts  Jr. 
works  in  investment  bank- 
ing, specializing  in  private 
placement  financings  for 
emerging  growth  compa- 
nies, with  Victory 
Investments  in  Chapel  Hill, 
N.C  Nanette  Johnson 
Rudolf  is  director  of  devel- 
opment for  Pine  Crest 
School  in  Fort  Lauderdale, 
Fla.,  a  private  school  with 
1600  students  in  grades 
pre-K  through  12.   Frank 
Wills  is  an  area  manager 
for  International  Paper 
Company  in  Thomson,  Ga., 
where  he  manages  130,000 
acres  of  timberland.   He 
and  his  wife,  Connie,  have 
two  children. 


'78 


Mr.  R.  Phillip  Carpenter 
1465  Northlake  Drive 
Jackson,  MS  39211-2138 

Jonathan  Bates  married 
Margaret  Thweatt  Winters 
in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  on  Aug.  9, 
1997.  They  live  in  Atlanta 
where  he  teaches  English 


and  is  academic  dean  at 
the  Heritage  School  and 
she  is  a  designer  of  educa- 
tional software  for  IBM. 
Harry  Cash  and  his  wife, 
Leaba,  had  a  daughter, 
Kathryn  Elizabeth,  on  May 
5,  1997.   She  joins  big 
brothers,  Matt  and  Andy. 
John  Hendry,  his  wife, 
Denise,  and  their  eight- 
year-old  daughter,  Anna, 
live  in  Bryan-College 
Station,  Texas,  where  John 
coordinates  the  vocational 
training  program  and  is  in 
charge  of  purchasing  at 
Youth  Services 
International,  a  treatment 
center  for  troubled  youth. 
Kent  McNeer  moved  from 
Connecticut  to  Winston- 
Salem,  N.C. 


'79 


Ms.  Rebecca  Sims 

Box  9699,  Highway  158 

Ambrose,  GA   31512 

Walter  Givhan  is  a  lieu- 
tenant colonel  in  the  U.S. 
Air  Force.   He  recently 
completed  a  year  as  mili- 
tary assistant  to  the 


Secretary  of  the  Air  Force 
at  the  Pentagon  in 
Washington,  D.C.    He  and 
his  wife,  Frances  Beeland 
Givhan,  moved  with  their 
five  children  to  Las  Vegas, 
Nev.,  where  he  is  assuming 
command  of  the  549th 
Combat  Training  Squadron 
at  Nellis  Air  Force  Base.   In 
addition  to  serving  as  com- 
mander, he  will  fly  the  A-10 
attack  aircraft.  Tara  Seeley 
enjoys  staying  at  home  in 
Kensington,  Md.,  with  her 
three  children,  after  help- 
ing Roman  Catholic  parish- 
es develop  their  social  jus- 
tice ministry  for  the  past 
nine  years.   Michael 
Sierchio  is  at  SunSoft  in  the 
Network  Security  Products 
Group  in  California.   He 
works  on  issues  related  to 
privacy  and  authentication, 
electronic  commerce,  and 
security  against  intrusion, 
unauthorized  use,  and  van- 
dalism.  He  also  volunteers 
for  the  Gorilla  Foundation 
and  created  its  web  page. 


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'80 


BY  JIM    BRATTON,    C'52 
President  of  the  Associated  Alumni 

"...it's  the  one  that's  coming  up." 
-Willie  Six 

In  this,  my  last  column  as  president  of  the  Associated 
Alumni,  I  would  be  seriously  remiss  if  I  did  not  acknowledge, 
and  say  a  hearfelt  word  of  thanks  to  all  who  have  helped  to  make  my  temuie  in  office  such  a 
rewarding  and  fulfilling  experience.  But  there  are  not  enough  pages  in  this  publication  to  list 
all  the  people  I  should  recognize,  nor  enough  space  in  this  column  to  reflect  even  die  myri- 
ad sets  of  people  that  made  it  all  possible,  from  chancellors  of  the  University  through  all  the 
constituent  groups  associated  with  this  institution  (maybe  "governing  body,  administration, 
staff,  faculty,  students,  alumni,  and  my  family"  will  catch  almost  everybody,  if  I  omit  someone, 
I  apologize,  and  thank  you  not  only  for  what  you  have  done,  but  also  for  yotu-  understanding 
and  tolerance  in  the  premises) .  Nevertheless  I  must  pay  special  tribute  to  Yogi,  Mary,  Liz,  and 
the  interns  in  die  alumni  office,  as  well  as  to  the  officers  of  the  association  with  whom  I  have 
served.  A  particular  word  of  thanks  is  due  to  the  vice  chancellor  whose  support  of  the  alum- 
ni, and  help  and  encouragement  to  me,  has  been  outstanding.  Thanks,  too,  to  Robert 
Bradford,  who  as  editor  of  this  magazine,  has  been  so  tolerant  and  flexible,  especially  on 
deadlines. 

The  temptation  is  almost  overwhelming  to  reminisce  about  the  great  events  in  which  I 
have  been  allowed  to  share  over  the  past  two  years,  but  as  a  known  disciple  of  Willie  Six's 
philosophy,  I  would  prefer  to  use  this  space  to  comment  upon  heartening  signs  for  die 
future. 

It  is  hardly  a  secret  that  higher  education,  and  particularly  liberal  arts  education,  must 
respond  to  unprecedented  challenges  and  opportunities  that  are  heaping  up  at  a  record, 
and  accelerating,  pace. 

Happily,  Sewanee  is  moving  on  several  fronts  to  insure  diat  it  not  only  will  survive,  but  will 
prevail  in  the  "post-modem"  age,  or  the  "global  age,"  or  the  "information  age"  or  whatever 
category-defying  "age"  one  may  choose  to  call  it  There  is  a  certain  seamless  quality  to 
Sewanee's  life:  the  freshman  class  that  entered  in  August  of  diis  year  will  graduate  in  the  21st 
century,  midway  in  their  career,  we  and  tiiey  will  celebrate  die  centennial  of  that  legendary 
football  team  of  1899,  hoping  that  the  1999  edition  will  have  comparably  illustrious  and 
memorable  results. 

A  series  of  Pew  Roundtable  discussions  utilizing  a  format  developed  by  New  York's  Pew 
Foundation  and  implemented  at  some  150  institutions  of  higher  learning  has  been  meeting 
on  die  Mountain  under  the  leadership  of  distinguished  visiting  academic  officials,  bringing 
together  representatives  of  faculty,  administration,  students,  alumni,  and  regents  and  trustees 
of  the  University  to  consider  key  issues  for  the  future.  They  are  discussing,  for  example,  the 
financial  burdens  of  liberal  arts  education  and  competition  with  publicly  supported  institu- 
tions— a  problem  that  won't  go  away,  teaching  methods  and  tools  and  techniques  in  the 
cyberspace  era,  curriculum  content  diversity  and  multi-culturalism,  die  social  scene  and  die 
role  of  fraternities,  the  relationship  between  the  University  and  the  Church.  The  discussions 
have  been  candid,  thoughtful,  and  civilized. 

On  a  more  hands-on  and  less  theoretical  but  no  less  significant  front  an  initiative  is  being 
launched joindy  between  the  administration  and  Greek-alumni  leaders  to  make  some  repairs 
to  die  Greek-system  infrastructure.  That  system  throughout  the  country  generally  is  under 
attack  from  many  quarters,  and  on  many  campuses  remains  only  a  fading  memory.  The  evo- 
lution of  the  Greek  system  at  Sewanee,  happily,  has  taken  a  different  turn  from  that  at  most 
institutions,  and  occupies  a  unique  and  important  position  in  Sewanee's  culture.  It  is,  how- 
ever, in  serious  need  of  some  serious  fixing  with  the  help  of  alumns  in  the  near-term. 
Undoubtedly  the  Sewanee  of  the  first  decade  of  the  21st  Century  is  going  to  be  different  from 
the  Sewanee  of  this  decade,  as  it  was  for  every  other  era,  and  indeed,  virtually  every  other 
class.  Change  is  threatening,  but  it  is  a  trite  saying  that  "die  only  constant  is  change."  And 
change  is  inevitable.  The  genius  of  Western  Civilization  has  been  its  adaptability. 
Pragmatically  taking  what  is  best  (or  what  works  best)  from  other  cultures,  and  incorporat- 
ing it  into  its  own.  Sewanee  has  done  likewise,  and  will  continue  to  do  so. 

I  am  unwaveringly  optimistic  and  supremely  confident  that  the  Sewanee  of  the  future  will 
continue  sending  out  its  alumni  with  what  I  perceive  are  three  basic  products  of  a  liberal  arts 
education:  The  ability  to  write  a  sentence  in  the  English  language,  the  ability  to  separate  sense 
from  nonsense,  the  belief  that  each  person  has  innate  ancl  individual  dignity  and  worth. 

Thanks  for  the  honor  and  privilege  of  serving  in  this  job.  and  for  all  you  do  for  alma 
mater. 

Yea  Sewanee's  right! 


Mr.  Hugh  Stephenson 
P.  O.   Box  7278 
Atlanta,  GA  30357 

Rob  Campbell  and  his  wife, 
Dorsey,  live  in  Atlanta,  Ga., 
where  their  business,  RJ.'s 
Kitchen  and  Wine  Bar,  is 
celebrating  ten  years  of 
operation.   Sue  DeWalt  has 
changed  law  practices  and 
is  now  with  Titus  & 
McCorovy,  LLP,  in 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.   Kathy 
Herbert  Granger  recently 
completed  a  master's 
degree  in  education.  She 
and  her  husband,  Rob 
(C'77),  live  in  Covina, 
Calif.,  with  their  four  chil- 
dren.  Tom  Macfie  was 
elected  a  University  trustee 
from  the  Diocese  of 
Tennessee  in  January  1997, 
aird  in  late  June  he  was 
called  to  be  the  25th  rector 
of  Otey  Memorial  Parish  in 
Sewanee,  where  he  and  his 
wife,  Pamela,  and  their 
eight-year-old  son,  Thomas, 
now  live.   Ken  McKeithen 
and  his  wife,  Laura,  live  in 
Bradenton,  Fla.,  where  Ken 
started  a  new  home  con- 
struction and  development 
business  with  Bemis  Smith 
(C'81).   Sylvia  Robertshaw 
spent  the  summer  working 
as  a  chaplain  at 
Northwestern  Memorial 
Hospital  in  Chicago,  111. 
She  is  in  her  final  year  of 
seminary  at  Seabury- 
Western.  Jeanne 
Heuerman  Sauder  is  taking 
a  one-year  leave  of  absence 
from  her  job  at  a 
Montessori  school  in 
Charlotte,  N.C.,  to  enjoy 
being  a  mom  to  her  first 
child,  Carrie  Leigh,  who 
was  born  Jan.  1,  1997.   Ann 
Benners  Travis  works  part- 
time  as  a  speech  patholo- 
gist in  Austin,  Texas,  where 
she  lives  with  her  husband, 
Ed,  and  their  two  daugh- 
ters. 


'81 


Mr.  Brent  T.  Minor 
2910  Sycamore  Street 
Alexandria.  VA   22305 

Erling  Riis  III  recently  was 
awarded  the  professional 


insurance  designation 
Chartered  Property 
Casualty  Underwriter  by 
the  American  Institute  for 
CPCU.   He  is  vice  president 
and  parmer  of  Lyon  Fry 
Cadden  Insurance  Agency 
in  Malvern,  Pa.    Gary 
Rowcliffe  and  his  wife, 
Sandra,  welcomed  twin 
daughters,  Claire  Amanda 
and  Caroline  Gwyn,  on 
April  2.  1997. 


'82 


Ms.  Catherine  Meriwether 
14  Chinquapin  Court 
Columbia,  SC  29212-3515 

Marcus  Bailey  married 
Dina  Hendrix  on  June  22, 
1997.   Cacky  Sullivan 
Oztekin  had  a  daughter, 
Anne  Layton,  on  May  9, 
1997.  This  is  her  second 
child.   She  works  as  a  con- 
troller for  Byars  and  Co.,  a 
mortgage  banking  firm  in 
Birmingham,  Ala. 


'83 


Mr.  Stewart  Low 
1144-8  Bibbs  Road 
Vorhees,  NJ  08043 

Chris  Carlson  is  catering 
secretary  for  Marriott  Food 
Services  at  the  University  of 
the  South.   Carol  Beers 
Hayes  and  her  husband, 
Peter,  adopted  three  chil- 
dren from  Irkutsk,  Russia, 
in  February  1997.   Irina 
Victoria,  9,  Vera  Elizabeth, 
8,  and  Alexander  Edward, 
2,  are  enjoying  life  in 
Jacksonville,  Fla.,  with  their 
new  parents.   Greg  and 
Shannon  Kinyon  (C'85) 
Townsend  had  a  son, 
Robert  Daniel,  on  June  14, 
1997. 


'84 


Ms.  Anne Freels  Bleynat 
109  Westwood  Road 
AsheviUe,  NC  28804-2242 

David  James  graduated 
from  Duke  School  of 
Environment  in  May  1997. 
Tadd  McVay  moved  to 
Birmingham,  Ala.,  in  June 
1997  to  accept  the  position 
of  chief  financial  officer  of 
Capstone  Capital 
Corporation.    He  has  a  ten- 
year-old  daughter,  Ruth 


26 


SEWANEE/FALL    1997 


CLASS         NOTES 


Berrien.   Katherine  Alvarez 
Reelick  is  assistant  manager 
at  Stirling's  Coffee  House 
in  Sewanee. 


'85 


Ms.  Laurie  Jarrett  Rogers 
7721  Hollins  Road 
Richmond,  VA  23229-6641 

John  Sims  Baker  lives  in 
McEwen.  Tenn.,  where  he 
is  pastor  of  two  small 
churches.   Mark  Balte  and 
his  wife,  Cindy,  are  parents 
of  a  baby  girl,  Julia  Maria, 
born  July  6,  1997.  Julia 
joins  sisters  Elizabeth  Grace 
and  Sara  Anne  in  Decatur, 
Ga.  Jack  and  Kat  Green 
Barden  moved  to  Hazard, 
Ky.,  last  year  where  Jack  is 
pastor  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  and 
Kat  stays  at  home  with  their 
two  children,  John  and 
Allie.  David  and  Lynetta 
Cox  Binger  live  in  Danville, 
Ky.,  with  their  two  children, 
Sarah  and  Julia.   Lynetta  is 
working  part-time  at  Centre 
College.    Shap  and  Beth 
Garcia  Boyd  relocated  to 
Orlando,  Fla.,  where  Shap 
works  for  Lake  Highland 
Preparatory  School.   Margo 
Bradley  is  working  on  ESL 
certification  at  George 
Mason  University  and  sub- 
stitute teaching  in 
Alexandria,  Va.   Laurie 
Keyser  Brunner  and  her 
husband,  Russ,  live  in 
Potomac,  Md.,  with  their 
son,  Russell  Keyser.  Jeanne 
Lewis  Burch  and  her  hus- 
band, John,  live  in 
Huntsville,  Ala.,  with  their 
son,  Nathan  Lewis. 
Gibbons  Burke  Jr.  relocat- 
ed to  New  York  to  be  a 
global  products  manager 
for  Dow  Jones  Markets. 
Phil  Campbell  and  his  wife, 
Karen,  live  in  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  where  Phil  works  for 
a  law  firm  that  handles  per- 
sonal injury  and  civil  rights 
litigation.   Rick  and 
Jennifer  Murray  Candler 
live  in  Sharpsburg,  Ga. 
Jennifer  recently  toured 
Europe  for  three  weeks 
with  her  sister  who  is  a  chef 
for  the  U.S.  Ambassador  to 
Switzerland.   Allen  Conger 
works  for  Law  Engineering 
and  Environmental 


Services  in  Columbia,  S.C. 
Kelley  Dockrey  is  a  resident 
computer  intern  in  the 
Office  of  Residential  Life  at 
UCLA  in  Los  Angeles, 
Calif.   She  recently  helped 
set  up  the  world's  largest 
ethernet  network  with 
6,000  users  in  the  UCLA 
residence  halls.   Myles  and 
Rachel  Davis  Elledge 
moved  from  Tokyo  to 
Chapel  Hill,  N.C.   Doug 
Fuqua  lives  in  Honolulu, 
Hawaii,  where  he  is  pursu- 
ing a  Ph.D.  in  history.   Bill 
Gage  and  his  wife,  Waveiiy, 
live  in  Houston,  Texas,  with 
their  daughter,  Sarah  Jane. 
Martha  Hodgkins  Green  is 
associate  editor  for  the 
Nature  Conservancy  Magazine 
in  Staunton,  Va.   She  and 
her  husband,  Carter,  have  a 
three-year-old  son.  John 
Guglielmi  recently  became 
a  partner  in  a  company 
that  markets  and  sells  to 
the  greenhouse  and  live- 
stock production  trades. 
He  and  his  wife,  Carrie 
Beth,  have  three  daughters. 
Carter  Harrison  Jackson 
and  her  husband,  Damn, 
live  in  Waco,  Texas,  where 
she  is  executive  director  for 
Habitat  for  Humanity. 
Elizabeth  Craver  McAlister 
and  her  husband,  Mark 
(C'84),  live  in  Charlotte, 
N.C,  with  their  three  chil- 
dren, Rob,  Mary  Kate,  and 
Mark.   Stefanie  Boaz 
McCain  opened  a  new 
practice  in  obstetrics  and 
gynecology  on  Aug.  11, 
1997,  on  the  campus  of 
Abilene  Regional  Medical 
Center  in  Texas.   In  June 
1997  she  completed  12 
years  of  service  in  the  U.S. 
Air  Force.   Sue  Killen 
Mealer  works  at 
HealthSouth  in  Memphis 
and  is  helping  her  hus- 
band, David,  start  up  a 
medical  answering  service 
called  Answering 
Advantage.  They  have  one 
son.   Scott  Miller  and  his 
wife,  Robin,  live  in  Tampa, 
Fla.,  where  he  co-founded  a 
venture  capital  firm  in 
February  1997.   Becky 
Nelson  is  senior  editor  of 
New  Business  Development  for 
Visible  Ink  Press,  a  division 
of  International  Thomson 


Publishing  Company.  She 
lives  in  Grosse  Pointe 
Woods,  Mich.   Emilie 
Ostertag  graduated  in 
August  1997  from  the 
University  of  Washington 
School  of  Medicine 
Physician  Assistant 
Program.    Carol  Casteel 
Poles  has  taken  a  year  off 
to  renovate  a  house  she 
and  her  husband,  George, 
purchased  last  summer  in 
Rye,  N.Y.   Lee  Pride  began 
a  fellowship  in  interven- 
tional neurology  in  July 
1997.   He  and  his  wife, 
Tamara,  live  in  Bedford, 
Texas,  with  their  two  chil- 
dren, David  and  Rachel. 
Tina  Rose  recently  pur- 
chased a  second  ladies' 
apparel  store  in  Shelbyville, 
Tenn.,  called  Magnolias. 
She  also  owns  T  Michelle 
Clothiers  in  Tullahoma, 
Tenn.    Nancy  Sanderson 
lives  in  Watertown,  N.Y., 
where  she  works  a  few  days 
a  month  and  parents  six 
foster  children  the  rest  of 
the  time.   Serena  Satcher  is 
director  of  occupational 
health  services  at  St. 
Francis  Family  Health  in 
Dolton,  111.   Leigh  Bradford 
Siegmann  was  promoted  to 
senior  logistics  analyst  at 
Georgia  Pacific  last 
January.  She  and  her  hus- 
band, Markus,  have  two 
children,  Luke  and  Lauren. 
Rich  and  Bronwyn  Healy 
(C'87)Westlingand  their 
three  children  live  in  New 
Orleans,  La.    Rich  recently 
left  the  U.S.  Justice 
Department  in  New 
Orleans,  La.,  after  seven 
years  as  a  federal  prosecu- 
tor to  start  a  solo  practice, 
and  Bronwyn  completed 
her  master's  degree  in 
genetics  at  LSU  medical 
school  this  summer.  Jeff 
Willis  and  his  wife,  Molly, 
live  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  with 
their  two  children,  Adam 
and  Ann  Marie. 


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Ms.  Read  Van  de  Water 
4701  29th  Place,  NW 
Washington,  DC  20008 

Navy  Lieutenant  Bryan 
Buchanan  recently  began 
an  eight-month  air  show 


season  tour  with  the  U.S. 
Navy's  Flight  Demonstra- 
tion Squadron,  the  Blue 
Angels.    He  is  one  of  more 
than  120  squadron  mem- 
bers who  will  travel  to  35 
cities  throughout  the 
United  States  during  this 
year's  50th  anniversary 
tour    Wes  Clayton  recently 
was  named  first  vice  presi- 
dent of  Smith  Barney  in 
Huntsville,  Ala.   Robert 
Flack  purchased  an  insur- 
ance agency.  Jack  Benz  &: 
Associates,  in 
Goodlettsville,  Tenn. 
Caroline  Morton  Huffman 
and  her  husband,  Dane, 
have  a  son,  Cameron 
Russell,  born  Feb.  6,  1997, 
in  Charlotte,  N.C.   Louise 
Richardson  Manzella  and 
her  husband,  Steve,  live  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.  They  have 
one  son.    Gene  Snead  and 
his  wife,  Joy,  are  the  par- 
ents of  a  son.  Stetson  Jude, 
born  July  23,  1997,  in 
Winchester,  Tenn.   Kathryn 
Davenport  Spencer  and 
her  husband,  James,  had  a 
daughter,  Hadden 
Elizabeth,  on  March  3, 
1997.  They  also  have  a 
son,  Marshall.   Lloyd 
Whatley  is  employed  by 
Union  Planters  Bank  in 
Memphis.  Tenn. 

'87 

Mr.  Fox  Johnston 

325  Pari:  Road 

Lookout  Mountain,  TN  37350 

Jennifer  Thomas  Freeland 

and  her  husband,  Mark 
(C'90),  live  in  Nashville, 
Tenn.  Jennifer  is  a  gradu- 
ate student  at  MTSU  in 
Murfreesboro  studying 
public  history  with  an 
emphasis  in  historic  preser- 
vation, and  Mark  is  an 
endontist  with  Endonics 
Associates.    Hardy 
Lipscomb  has  his  master's 
degree  from  UCLA  in  Los 
Angeles,  Calif.   He  is  mar- 
ried and  lives  in  Boulder, 
Colo.  Priscilla  Haldi 
McKinnon  and  her  hus- 
band, Graham,  welcomed 
their  second  child,  Graham 
Wiley,  on  June  16,  1997. 
Bob  Morales  and  his  wife, 
Angie,  live  in  Athens,  Ga., 
with  their  daughter, 


The  University  of  the  South 


27 


CLASS         NOTES 


Breland.    Bob  is  president 
of  Morales  Sales  Co.   C.  C. 
Pilgrim  is  pursuing  a  Ph.D. 
in  French  literature  from 
Columbia  University.   She 
lives  in  Athens,  Greece. 
Frank  Tyiies  and  his  wife, 
Claire,  live  in  Birmingham, 
Ala.,  where  he  works  in  the 
foundry  business.   He  grad- 
uated in  May  1997  with  an 
MBA  from  the  University  of 
Alabama.  Ann  Walker  is 
teaching  English  at  the 
University  of  the  South  first 
semester  1997.   She  and 
her  husband.  Will  Phillips, 
live  in  Florence,  Ala.  Steve 
Williams  married  Anne 
Elizabeth  Hudgins  at  All 
Saints'  Chapel  in  Sewanee 
on  Aug.  16,  1997. 


two  sons,  Bryson  and 
Stirling,  to  Greensboro, 
N.C.,  where  Robert  prac- 
tices law  with  Smith, 
Helms,  Mullis  and  Moore. 
Christine  Brown  James  is 
completing  her  last  year  of 
law  school  at  Duke 
University.    David  Shipps 
and  his  wife,  Sydney,  live  in 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  where  he  is 
new  products  manager  for 
BellSouth.    Cabe  Speary  is 
an  instructor  of  forestry  at 
Southeastern  Community 
College  in  Whiteville,  N.C. 
Tom  Welch  is  a  senior  sci- 
entist at  Novalon  Pharma- 
ceutical Corporation  in 
Chapel  Hill,  N.C. 


'89 


'88 


Ms.  Lesley  Grant 

459  N.  Gardner  Street 

Los  Angeles,  CA   90036-5708 

Cathy  Small  Brim  is  project 
manager  for  Globe  Media 
Custom  Marketing  Group 
in  Decatur,  Ga.  Robert 
Carter  and  his  wife,  Anne 
Barton,  moved  with  their 


Mr.  John  Patten  Guerryjr. 
1 75  Kenley  Court 
Manet/a,  GA    30068 

Ms.  Joy  Archer  Yeager 
5800  Woodway  #405 
Houston,  TX 77057-1511 

Stephen  Christie  and  his  wife, 
Laure,  had  their  second  child, 
Mary  Hayden,  on  July  24, 
1997.  Mary  joins  two-year-old 
Caroline.  Stephen  made 


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If  you  are  Sewanee's  biggest  fan,  then  show 
it.  Help  us  reach  our  goal  of  45%  alumni 
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partner  in  his  law  firm  earlier 
this  year.  David  Folds  is  an 
attorney  widi  David,  Hagner, 
Kuney,  and  Davison  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.  Ed  Harold  and 
his  wife,  Ann,  had  a  son, 
Charles  Elliotte,  on  May  18, 
1997.  The  live  in  Metairie, 
La.  AJ.  Johnson  works  for  a 
ffavel  agency  in  Gainesville, 
Fla.  Patrick  Jones  is  a  fixed  in- 
come trader  for  Financial  Ser- 
vice Corporation  in  Atlanta, 
Ga.  Katherine  MacKinnon  is 
at  Daelim  College  of  Technol- 
ogy in  Korea.  She  plans  to 
pursue  a  doctorate  in  applied 
linguistics.  Duncan  Manley 
Jr.  is  a  senior  consultant  at 
Dean  Consulting  in  Birming- 
ham, Ala.  He  redesigns 
workflows  for  insurance  and 
financial  services  companies. 
He  and  his  wife,  Allison,  have 
one  daughter,  Murray. 
Elizabeth  McKay  is  leaving 
her  current  job  to  become  a 
professional  personal  coach 
and  management  consultant. 
She  had  a  son  in  February 

1997.  Beckee  Morrison  trav- 
eled to  Korea  and  then  to 
China  this  summer  to  contin- 
ue her  study  of  Mandarin  at 
Peking  (Beijing)  University. 
She  is  working  on  her  mas- 
ter's degree  in  geography, 
and  serving  as  youth  leader, 
lay  eucharistic  minister,  and 
alto  at  Holy  Nativity  in  Ana 
Haina,  Hawaii.  Robb  Powell 
was  promoted  to  director  of 
Aialytical  Technologies  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Michael 
Reeves  married  Julie  Mackle 
on  July  12,  1997,  in  New 
Canaan,  Conn.  The  couple 
resides  in  Memphis,  Tenn. 
Michael  is  vice  president  and 
portfolio  manager  at 
NewSouth  Capital  Manage- 
ment and  serves  on  the 
boards  of  the  Memphis  Zoo 
and  Bravo  Memphis.  He  also 
is  president  of  the  Duke  Club 
of  Memphis  and  recently  was 
selected  as  a  member  of  the 
Leadership  Memphis  Class  of 

1998.  Julie  is  a  sixth-grade 
math  teacher.  Sarah  Evett 
Rothleder  moved  from  Am 
Arbor,  Mich.,  to  Reston,  Va. 
Megan  Walker  and  William 
Porcher  "Poe"  Miles  (C'90) 
were  married  June  21,  1997, 
at  All  Saints'  Chapel  in 
Sewanee.   Megan  is  market- 
ing director  of  Pelican 


Athletic  Club,  an  upscale  fit- 
ness center,  and  Poe  is  a  real 

estate  appraiser. 


'90 


Ms.  Katy  Morrissey 

149  Central  Ave.,  Apt.  13 

Ridgefield  Park,  NJ  07660 

Giles  Bateman  and  his  wife, 
Jennifer,  recently  moved 
from  New  Hampshire  to 
Waco,  Texas.   Kathy  Gotko 
Bruce  and  her  husband, 
Alex  (C'89),  had  a  daugh- 
ter, Allison  Morgan,  on 
April  28,  1997.  They 
recently  moved  to 
Barnesville,  Ga.,  where 
Alex  has  a  tenure-track 
position  in  the  English 
department  at  Gordon 
College.   Andrew  Bruner 
moved  to  Chicago,  111., 
where  he  is  employed  by 
KPMG  Peat  Marwick,  LLP. 
Anna  Beasnett  Graham  was 
promoted  to  director  of 
campaigns  and  principal 
giving  at  Maryville  College 
in  Marwille,  Tenn.  Tracey 
Spang  Hudson  and  her 
husband,  Randall  Wayne, 
had  a  daughter,  Olivia 
Montgomery,  on  April  6, 
1997.   They  live  in  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  where  Tracey  teaches 
first  grade.   Frank 
Lockwood  recently  com- 
pleted his  residency  in  fam- 
ily practice  at  the 
University  of  Texas, 
Houston  Medical  School, 
Department  of  Family 
Practice  and  Community 
Medicine.   At  the  gradua- 
tion and  award  ceremony, 
he  received  the 
Outstanding  Resident  in 
Teaching  and  Outstanding 
Resident  in  Research 
awards.   He  will  be  practic- 
ing in  Stockbridge,  Ga. 
Kiyoshi  Oka  is  a  senior 
engineer  with  Canon  USA 
Inc.  in  Irvine,  Calif.  He 
and  his  wife,  Bettina,  have 
two  children,  Dai  Finn  and 
Shin  Kai.  Joely 
Pomprowitz  has  taken  an 
art  position  with  the 
Nashville  Public  School 
System.   Kristine  Strieker 
married  Joseph  Chu  on 
June  28,  1997,  in  Little 
Rock,  Ark.   Rebekah 
McClatchey  Warren  and 
her  husband,  James,  live  in 


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Sewanee/Fsll  1997 


CLASS         NOTES 


Atlanta,  Ga.,  where  she 
teaches  fifth  grade  at 
Wesleyan  Day  School. 
Leanne  Wilder  relocated  to 
Manassas,  Va.,  from  Waco, 
Texas. 


91 


Ms.  Marsey  L.  Waller 
536  E.  Luray  Avenue 
Alexandria,  VA   22301 
Dennis  Darnoi  is  adminis- 
trative assistant  to  the  gov- 
ernor of  Michigan  in 
Lansing.   Kafhryn  Dunbar 
is  a  lieutenant  with  the  U.S. 
Coast  Guard  and  currently 
serves  as  a  congressional 
liaison  in  Washington,  D.C. 
Bill  Dycus  married 
Catherine  Webster  on  June 
15,  1997,  in  Westport, 
Conn.   He  completed  his 
Ph.D.  in  clinical  psychology 
at  St.  John's  University  in 
New  York  City  and  works  as 
a  staff  psychologist  in  the 
Psychological  Services 
Section  of  the  New  York 
City  Police  Department. 
Anne  Marie  Gillespie  mar- 
ried Greg  Palmieri  on  May 
24,  1997,  in  Haines,  Alaska. 
She  is  an  environmental 
specialist  with  the  State  of 
Alaska  Department  of 
Environmental 
Conservation  where  she 
oversees  contaminated  site 
cleanups  and  writes  policy. 
Patrick  Halloran  is  in  the 
Persian  Gulf  where  he  is  an 
educational  specialist  with 
The  Learning  Center.  He 
recently  helped  start  an 
education  center  for  stu- 
dents with  learning  disabili- 
ties in  Doha,  Qatar.   Ruth 
Holton  married  Hank 
Spencer  in  Birmingham, 
Ala.,  on  Aug.  16,  1997.   She 
is  a  physician  contract 
implementation  specialist 
with  United  Health  Care. 
Sarah  Jane  Kilgo  began 
graduate  school  in  special 
education,  working  with 
preschool  children,  at  the 
University  of  Georgia  in 
September.   Lauren 
McDonald  is  a  production 
stage  manager  with  the 
Virginia  Stage  Co.  in 
Norfolk.   She  also  writes 
short  stories.   Beth  Phillips 
is  a  lieutenant  in  the  U.S. 
Navy,  serving  as  medical 


officer  aboard  the  USS 
Essex  out  of  San  Diego, 
Calif.   Stephen  Saunders 
received  an  MBA  degree 
from  the  Darden  School  at 
the  University  of  Virginia 
on  May  18,  1997.  Julie 
McClure  Tyrrell  and  her 
husband,  Richard  (C'92), 
live  in  Columbia,  S.C., 
where  Julie  is  a  librarian 
for  Springdale  Elementary 
and  Richard  is  studying 
international  business. 


'92 


Ms.  Kathryn  McDonald 
4155  Essen  Lane,  Apt.  56 
Baton  Rouge,  LA    70809 

Mercedes  Boyle  Abrams 

and  her  husband,  Matt, 
relocated  to  Miami  Beach, 
Fla.,  where  she  is  director 
of  reservations  for  the 
Doral  Golf  Resort  and  Spa. 
Andy  Buchanan  is  the  new 
assistant  rector  at  Trinity 
Church  in  Tariffville, 
Conn.,  where  he  and  his 
wife,  Dana,  live.  Baron 
Jordan  recently  accepted  a 
consultant  position  with 
Magnus  Management 
Consultants  in  Atlanta,  Ga. 
Will  Laney  Jr.  married 
Allison  Elizabeth  Hastings 
on  June  28,  1997,  in 
Atlanta,  Ga.   Mike  Lewis 
won  the  Walter  G.  Sterling 
Award  for  Excellence  at  the 
University  of  Texas  School 
of  Medicine  in  Houston, 
Texas.  The  annual  award  is 
given  to  the  outstanding 
graduating  senior  of  the 
medical  school  as  chosen 
by  the  faculty.  James  and 
Marcia  Manwaring  Splichal 
moved  to  Vacaville,  Calif., 
with  their  two  sons,  James 
Evan  and  Hayden 
Alexander. 


'93 


Ms.  Rebecca  Miller 
4203  Town  Walk  Drive 
Hamden,  CT  06518 

Lisa  Amelse  graduated  in 
May  1997  with  a  master's 
degree  in  genes  and  devel- 
opment from  the 
University  of  Texas  Health 
Science  Center  Houston 
Graduate  School  of 
Biomedical  Science.   She  is 
a  senior  research  assistant 


for  the  M.D.  Anderson 
Cancer  Center  in  Houston. 
Nisha  Arunatilake  lives  in 
Durham,  N.C.,  where  she  is 
working  on  a  doctoral 
degree  in  economics  at 
Duke  University.   Scott 
Barringer  recently  relocat- 
ed to  Greenville,  S.C.,  to 
work  for  KPMG  Peat 
Marwick,  LLP.  Judy  Batts 
works  for  East  West 
Partners  in  Breckenridge, 
Colo.   Chase  Bean  is  mar- 
ket operations  specialist 
with  TNEMEC  Company. 
He  and  his  wife,  Julia 
Daniell  Bean  (C'92),  live  in 
Kansas  City,  Mo.  Allan 
Bible  and  his  wife,  Amy 
Harrington,  live  in  Oak 
Ridge,  Tenn.,  where  he  is  a 
project  manager  for 
Parsons  Infrastructure. 
Holly  Metz  Bolton  and  her 
husband,  John,  moved  to 
Chicago,  III,  where  she 
works  for  GE  Capital  IT 
Solutions.   Trey  Brannom  is 
a  lieutenant  in  the  U.S. 
Army.   He  is  stationed  in 
Germany  and  Bosnia  with 
his  air  traffic  control  unit 
upholding  the  peace  treaty. 
He  is  scheduled  to  return 
to  Georgia  in  the  fall  where 
he  and  his  wife,  Stacy,  will 
live  in  Trenton.   Darcy 
Baird  Brown  is  an  attorney 
with  Bozeman,  Jenkins  and 
Matthews  in  Pensacola, 
Fla.,  where  she  lives  with 
her  husband,  Larry.  Andy 
Carter  and  his  wife, 
Kimberly,  live  in  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  where  he  practices 
law  at  Burch,  Parter  and 
Johnson.  Michael  Cass 
returned  to  his  hometown 
of  Macon,  Ga.,  to  cover 
education  for  The  Macon 
Telegraph,  a  75,000  circula- 
tion daily  newspaper. 
Arjun  Charanjiva  complet- 
ed his  MBA  in  marketing 
and  MIA  in  international 
business  at  Columbia 
University  in  May  1997.   He 
works  for  the  marketing 
department  at  M&M  Mars 
in  New  York  City.  Jay 
Christopher  graduated 
from  medical  school  in 
June  1997.   He  will  do  his 
surgery  residency  in 
Greenville,  N.C.   Dale 
Colemore  is  in  her  third 
season  working  for  the  U.S. 


Forest  Service  on  an  initial 
attack  fire  crew  in 
Bozeman,  Mont.  Allison 
Dorman  Collier  completed 
an  M.A.  in  secondary  edu- 
cation in  August  1997. 
Newly  married,  she  and  her 
husband,  James,  live  in 
Birmingham,  Ala.   Peter 
Cook  is  assistant  manager 
of  Sprint  Rent-A-Car  in 
Macon,  Ga.,  where  he  lives 
with  his  wife,  Amanda  Cook 
(C'95).    Clay  Crow  is  a  real 
estate  developer  in  Federal 
Way,  Wash.,  near  Seattle. 
Jade  Davis  was  promoted  to 
group  sales  manager  for 
Aruba  Sonesta  Resorts  in 
Miami,  Fla.   She  also 
attends  the  University  of 
Miami  full-time,  working 
toward  an  MBA  in  market- 
ing. Amy  Ditsler  works  for 
an  adventure  travel  compa- 
ny that  offers  guided  hik- 
ing and  mountain  biking- 
trips  in  the  western  U.S. 
She  lives  in  Loveland,  Colo. 
Brad  and  Carrie  Hamrick 
(C'95)  Drell  had  a  daugh- 
ter, Sarah  Adaline,  on  Feb. 
19,  1997.  Rich  Edwards  is 
a  teacher  and  coach  at  the 
Hammond  School  in 
Columbia,  S.C.    Carolyn 
Evans  and  her  husband, 
Ray,  had  a  baby  girl, 
Eleanor  Reese,  in  March 
1997.  They  live  in  Atlanta, 
Ga.   Parker  and  Jennifer 
Warren  Evans  live  in 
Montgomery,  Ala.,  where 
she  is  branch  manager  of 
AmSouth  Bank  and  he  is 
pursuing  a  master's  degree 
in  building  science  at 
Auburn  LIniversity.  Roman 
Farrar  married  Jennifer 
Ann  Sutton  in  July  1997. 
They  live  in  New  Orleans, 
La.,  where  they  are  in  their 
second  year  at  LSU  dental 
school.  Paige  Ford  is  direc- 
tor of  youth  ministries  at 
Christ  Church  in 
Arlington,  Va.  Julie  Fowler 
and  John  Richards  were 
married  in  All  Saints' 
Chapel  in  Sewanee  on 
Sept.  20,  1997.   Cindy 
Gentry  is  a  physics  teacher 
at  Franklin  Road  Academy 
in  Nashville,  Tenn.   She 
earned  her  M.Ed,  from 
David  Lipscomb  University 
in  May  1997.  Stephen 
Gidiere  accepted  a  position 


THE    UNIVERSITY   OF  THE    SOUTH 


CLASS         NOTES 


as  attorney  for  the 
Department  of  the  Interior 
in  Washington,  D.C. 
Spencer  Goetz  is  a  pilot 
with  Atlantic  Southeast 
Airline,  the  Delta 
Connection.    He  and  his 
wife,  Jane,  live  in  Atlanta, 
Ga.  Anne  Grimsley  gradu- 
ated from  the  University  of 
Georgia  Veterinary  School 
in  May  1997,  and  moved  to 
Manhattan,  Kan.,  to  start 
an  internship  in  equine 
medicine  and  surgery  at 
Kansas  State  University. 
Jim  Hamilton  returned 
from  Costa  Rica  in  March 
1997,  where  he  was  study- 
ing tropical  biology.   He 
plans  to  return  to  Paraguay 
in  the  fall  to  do  master's 
research  at  Auburn 
University  in  Tropical 
Agroforestry  Extension. 
Elizabeth  Tindal  Harbison 
and  her  husband,  Rob,  live 
in  Radcliff,  Ky.,  where  she 
works  for  Profitt's  and  does 
freelance  medical  editing. 
Melissa  Hartley  is  a  senior 
at  the  General  Theological 
Seminary  in  New  York  City. 
Leslie  Hiers  received  a 
grant  this  summer  from  the 
Lettie  Pate  Evans 
Foundation's  Female 
Faculty  Enrichment 
Program  to  study  conduct- 
ing at  Indiana  University. 
She  currently  teaches 
English,  plays  the  organ, 
and  coaches  cross-country 
at  Episcopal  High  School 
in  Alexandria,  Va.   Kaethe 
Hoehling  is  a  therapist  at 
Little  Rock  Mental  Health 
Center  in  Arkansas.   Hope 
Hollingsworth  is  a  jeweler 
in  Roanoke.  Va.   Heather 
Honeycutt  works  in  health 
care  consulting  with 
Thompson  Powers  in 
Washington,  D.C.   Heather 
Howell  teaches  seventh 
grade  social  studies  at 
Northwest  Middle  School 
in  Greensboro,  N.C. 
Robert  Ingram  is  in 
London  working  on  his  dis- 
sertation research,  which  is 
scheduled  to  appear  in  seri- 
al installments  in  George 
magazine  beginning  in  the 
I. ill  ol   1999.    Angi  Johnson 
graduated  from  Georgia 
State  University  with  an 
M.S.  in  rehabilitation  coun- 


seling.  She  lives  in  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  and  works  with  people 
with  menial  illness  in  secur- 
ing employment.    Chester 
Johnson  lives  in  Clearwater, 
Fla.,  where  he  is  a  deputy 
sheriff  with  the  Pinellas 
County  sheriffs  office.  Jay 
Jones  and  his  wife,  Julie, 
live  in  Jackson,  Wyo.,  where 
he  works  for  Jackson  State 
Bank.   Elizabeth  Kelleher 
works  for  APB  America  and 
recently  was  transferred  to 
Austin,  Texas.   Courtney 
Key  is  pursuing  a  master's 
degree  in  architectural  his- 
tory at  the  University  of 
Virginia  in  Charlottesville. 
Carter  Knobel  recently  was 
appointed  to  the  City  of 
Anderson  Planning  and 
Zoning  Commission  in 
South  Carolina.  Joey 
Kreutziger  recently 
received  an  M.A.  in  English 
literature  from  Washington 
LIniversity  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Morey  Lent  is  pursuing  a 
B.S.  in  computer  science  at 
the  College  of  Charleston 
in  South  Carolina.  John 
Magevney  and  Ellen 
Jefferson  (C94)  were  mar- 
ried at  All  Saints'  Chapel  in 
Sewanee  on  July  12,  1997. 
They  are  in  graduate 
school  in  Gainesville,  Fla. 
Greer  Mallette  is  in  his  sec- 
ond year  at  the  University 
of  Alabama  law  school  in 
Tuscaloosa.   Victoria 
Manley  married  William 
Randall  Cue  on  April  19, 
1997,  in  Decatur,  Ga.    She 
is  a  graduate  student  in  art 
history  at  Georgia  State 
University.   Libba  Manning 
works  for  South  Dust  and 
lives  in  Birmingham,  Ala. 
Lisa  Mills  lives  in  Tulsa, 
Okla.,  where  she  is  working 
on  a  doctorate  in  psycholo- 
gy  Peter  Morgan  lives  in 
Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  where 
he  works  with  Chambliss, 
Banner  and  Stopehl,  P.C., 
as  a  legal  librarian.   Mara 
Morreale  is  a  copywriter  at 
an  advertising  agency  in 
Atlanta,  Ga.  Jeff  Muench 
returned  home  this  sum- 
mer from  Brussels, 
Belgium,  where  he  was 
working  on  a  master's 
degree  in  intercultural 
management  on  a  Rotary 
scholarship.   He  has  been 


interning  for  the  marketing 
department  at  Proximus,  a 
mobile  phone  company. 
Trent  Mulloy  and  his  wife, 
Elizabeth  Justice  Mulloy 
(C94).  live  in  Laurel,  Miss., 
where  he  is  vice-president 
of  Laurel  Machine  and 
Foundry  Company.  Doug 
and  Sarah  Gilbert  Murray 
live  in  Atlanta,  Ga.    Doug 
received  his  M.D.  from 
Emory  University  in  May 
1997,  and  is  doing  a  resi- 
dency in  orthopedic 
surgery  at  Georgia  Baptist 
Hospital.   Sarah  completed 
an  M.A.  in  political  science 
at  Georgia  State  University 
in  July.   Laura  Beth  Neely 
works  with  Sterne,  Agee 
and  Leach  Inc.  in 
Birmingham,  Ala.   Rob 
Norfleet  works  for 
Davenport  and  Company 
in  Richmond,  Va. 
Catherine  Edwards 
O'Connor  and  her  hus- 
band, Michael,  live  in 
Chanlilly,  Va.,  with  their 
son,  Daniel.    Daphne 
Owens  graduated  from  the 
LIniversity  of  Georgia  with 
an  M.S.  in  geoarcheology 
in  March  1997  and  lives  in 
Augusta,  Ga.   Paige  Parvin 
is  a  public  relations  coordi- 
nator at  the  High  Museum 
of  Art  in  Atlanta,  Ga.   She 
has  a  son.  Tucker  Roe, 
born  last  December.  Julie 
Phelps  lives  near  Charlotte, 
N.C,  where  she  is  the  assis- 
tant director  of  the 
Environmental  Education 
Center  at  Camp 
Thunderbird.   Brad  Powell 
is  director  of  the  annual 
fund  at  St.  Stephen's 
Episcopal  School  in  Austin, 
Texas.   He  is  running  an 
educational  outreach  pro- 
gram for  inner  city  youth 
and  working  on  an  MBA  at 
St.  Edward's  University. 
Hollis  Rogers  is  in  medical 
school  at  LSU  in 
Shreveport.  Amanda 
Samson  is  pursuing  a  Ph.D. 
in  counseling  psychology  at 
the  University  of  Denver. 
Sarah  Shepard  is  in  the 
Peace  Corps  in  southern 
Bolivia  where  she  works  in 
a  tree  nursery  and  leaches 
geoforestry  classes.  Anne 
Steilberg  works  at  Compass 
Bank  in  Birmingham,  Ala., 


and  is  pursuing  an  MBA  at 
Sam  ford  University.  John 
Thompson  graduated  from 
the  University  of  Colorado 
at  Boulder  with  an  M.A.  in 
journalism  in  May  1997 
and  is  working  as  a  free- 
lance video  editor  and  pho- 
tographer in  Denver.   Mary 
Bell  Hancock  Vaughn  is  in 
her  third  year  of  medical 
school  at  Mercer  University. 
Robert  Vogler  received  an 
MBA  from  the  Babcock 
School  of  Management  at 
Wake  Forest  University  in 
May  1997  and  is  working 
for  First  Annapolis 
Consulting  in  Baltimore, 
Md.   Chip  Wallace  lives  in 
Washington,  D.C,  where 
he  works  as  a  legislative 
assistant  for  Senator  Fred 
Thompson.   Nancy  Ward 
works  for  the  Carnegie 
Corporation  of  New  York 
in  Washington,  D.C.   She 
lives  in  Arlington,  Va. 
Claiborne  Woodall  is  com- 
pleting an  M.S.  in  forestry 
at  the  University  of 
Massachusetts,  Amherst, 
and  has  accepted  the  job  of 
stewardship  specialist  with 
the  Nature  Conservancy  in 
northern  New  Jersey. 
Anderson  Wrangle  spent 
the  summer  working  at 
Anderson  Ranch  in  Aspen, 
Colo.,  as  a  photo  assistant. 
This  fall  he  began  working 
on  a  master's  of  photogra- 
phy at  NYU  International 
Center  of  Photography. 
Andy  Zureick  and  his  wife, 
Tina,  live  in  Erlanger,  Ky. 


'94 


Ms.  Dawn  While 
1523  Custis  Court 
Atlanta,  GA  30338 

Caroline  Allison  attends 
the  School  of  Art  Institute 
in  Chicago,  111.   Eleanor 
Burke  is  working  toward  a 
master's  degree  in  architec- 
tural historic  preservation 
at  Columbia  University. 
This  summer  she  worked  in 
the  Historic  Preservation 
Office  in  Paris,  France. 
Shane  Hunziker  is  a  cus- 
tomer support  analyst  for 
Harbinger  Corporation  in 
Atlanta,  Ga.  John  Jennings 
has  a  fellowship  at  the 
University  of  Alabama  at 


Sewanee/Fall  1997 


CLASS         NOTES 


Birmingham  in  the  materi- 
als and  mechanical  engi- 
neering department. 
Andrea  Watson  Odle  is  a 
ninth-  and  tenth-grade 
madi  teacher  at  the  Girls' 
Preparatory  School  in 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
Allison  Rizk  is  minister  of 
the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Indianapolis, 
I  nd.  Tracy  Rucker  is  a 
French  instructor  at  the 
Darlington  School  in 
Rome,  Ga.   He  plans  to 
lead  a  group  of  students  to 
France  through  the  World 
Learning  Organization. 


95 


Ms.  Anne  McGinn 
21  Trevor  Place 
London  SW7,  UK 

Ms.  Nikki  Etheridge 
5  740  Sweetbriar  Trail 
Macon,  GA  31210 

Jake  Abernathy  started 
medical  school  at  the 
University  of  Alabama  in 
Birmingham  in  August. 
Chance  Algar  is  in  his  third 
year  of  medical  school  at 
Vanderbilt  in  Nashville, 
Tenn.   Elizabeth  Ariail 
earned  a  master's  degree  in 
student  development  from 
Appalachian  State 
University  in  May  1997. 
She  is  a  residence  director 
in  the  Office  of  Residence 
Life  at  Syracuse  University 
in  New  York.  Jason  Balogh 
graduated  from 
Washington  University  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  in  May  1997 
with  a  civil  engineering 
major  and  environmental 
engineering  minor.   Liza 
Barnett  is  a  mortgage 
banker  in  Mt.  Pleasant,  S.C. 
Hannah  Bennett  is  back  in 
the  U.S.  working  for  the 
Chicago  Historical  Society 
after  completing  her  mas- 
ter's degree  in  England. 
Helen  Boehm  is  in  her 
third  year  of  medical 
school  at  Vanderbilt 
University  in  Nashville. 
Dan  Brooks  is  in  his  third 
year  of  law  school  at 
Vanderbilt.    Cotton  Bryan 
and  his  wife,  May,  moved  to 
Chapel  Hill,  N.C.,  in  July 
1997,  where  May  is  study- 
ing at  UNC  and  Cotton  is 
teaching  English  at 


Carolina  Friends  School  in 
Durham.   Chris  and 
Elizabeth  Hesselink  Cairns 

live  in  Chattanooga,  Tenn., 
where  Chris  works  for  St. 
Peter's  Episcopal  Church  as 
the  youth  coordinator, 
works  with  young  people  at 
Baylor  High  School,  and 
coaches  soccer.    Elizabeth 
continues  to  work  at  Sylvan 
Learning  Center  as  a  pro- 
gram manager  and  tutors 
privately.   Catherine 
Carruthers  started  her  first 
year  of  medical  school  at 
the  University  of  Alabama 
at  Birmingham.   Katherine 
Christy  is  coordinator  for 
the  Helping  Teacher 
Program  and  teaches  math- 
ematics at  Klein  Forest 
High  School  in  Houston, 
Texas.  Keith  Coates  Jr.  is 
in  his  third  year  of  law 
school  at  the  University  of 
Tennessee  at  Knoxville. 
Mary  Kate  Cochrane 
attends  the  University  of 
Alabama  School  of  Law  in 
Tuscaloosa.    Elizabeth 
Brown  Collins  and  her  hus- 
band. Clay  (C'93),  are  in 
Ft.  Collins,  Colo.,  where 
Elizabeth  is  in  the  Peace 
Corps  Master's 
Internationalists  Program 
in  Soil  and  Crop  Sciences 
and  is  working  toward  a 
second  B.S-.  in  human 
nutrition  and  dietetics  at 
Colorado  State  University. 
She  works  also  at  the 
National  Seed  Storage 
Laboratory  as  a  seed  ana- 
lyst.  Drew  Corbett  teaches 
sixth  grade  language  arts 
and  social  studies  at 
Havenscourt  Middle  School 
in  Oakland,  Calif.   Scott 
Ellis  married  Holley 
Montiel  (C'96)  on  June  7, 
1997,  at  All  Saints'  Chapel 
in  Sewanee.   Christopher 
Elwell  spent  the  summer  in 
Gilchrist,  Ore.,  working  for 
Crown  Pacific,  a  timber 
company.   He  is  working 
toward  a  master's  degree  at 
Yale  School  of  Forestry. 
Adrienne  Evans  is  a  finan- 
cial advisor  with  American 
Express  in  Houston,  Texas. 
Tara  Frankel  recently  co- 
authored  a  chapter  of  the 
book,  The  Delaware 
Constitution  of 1897  -  The 
First  One  Hundred  Years,  with 


Chancellor  William  T. 
Allen,  in  addition  to  work- 
ing as  the  Board  of 
Pardons  administrator  in 
the  Secretary  of  State's 
Office  in  Dover,  Dela. 
Branan  Freeman  is  a  graph- 
ic designer  at  the  San  Diego 
Business  Journal.   Dode 
Gladders  received  a  mas- 
ter's degree  from  the 
University  of  Georgia  in 
June  1997  and  works  for 
Green  Crow  in  Port 
Angeles,  Wash.   Cameron 
Graham  is  in  Spartanburg, 
S.C,  where  she  enjoys 
coaching  field  hockey. 
Cathy  Gross  is  working 
with  an  environmental  and 
adventure  education  pro- 
gram at  Kanuga 
Conference  Center  in 
Hendersonville,  N.C. 
Karen  Haley  and  David 
Padilla  were  married  in 
Selma,  Ala.,  in  June  1997. 
Karen  is  a  librarian  at  a  pri- 
vate school  in  Washington, 
D.C.  Tom  Hardy  is  an 
export  sales  manager  for 
Synair  Corporation  in 
Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  where 
he  lives  with  his  wife. 
Scarlet.   His  job  takes  him 
to  Mexico  and  South 
America  for  two  months 
each  year.   Caroline 
Hartley  is  a  portfolio  man- 
ager for  Trusco  Capital 
Management  in  Atlanta, 
Ga.  Amy  Hawkins  is  a  con- 
sumer banker  at 
NationsBank  in  Charlotte, 
N.C.   Chris  Holyer  com- 
pleted a  master's  degree  in 
musicology  in  May  1997 
and  now  works  as  a  circula- 
tion assistant  in  the 
University  of  Virginia  Music 
Library  in  Charlottesville. 
Rob  Howell  started  a  new 
business  specializing  in 
kayak  and  other  water 
sports  equipment  exports 
to  Latin  America.  He  lives 
in  Greenville,  S.C.   Uzair 
Ismail  completed  a  mas- 
ter's degree  in  physics  from 
LSU  and  works  with 
American  Management 
Systems  in  Birmingham, 
Ala.,  in  the  Information 
Technology  Group. 
Charles  Israel  started  his 
final  year  of  coursework  in 
the  Ph.D.  program  in  histo- 
ry at  Rice  University  in 


Houston,  Texas.   Karen 
Jacks  was  accepted  into  the 
Bowman  Gray  School  of 
Medicine  in  Winston- 
Salem,  N.C,  this  fall. 
Megan  Jackson  is  a  morn- 
ing show  co-host  and  mid- 
day personality  at  B105.9  in 
Myrtle  Beach,  S.C. 
Stephen  Jackson  moved 
from  Charleston,  S.C,  to 
Hamclen,  Conn.   Stephen 
Kabalka  is  the  executive 
editor  of  the  Tennessee  Law 
Review  in  Knoxville,  Tenn. 
Melissa  Kennedy  is  pursu- 
ing a  master's  degree  in  art 
history  in  Richmond,  Va. 
Dudley  Kizer  attends  busi- 
ness school  at  Memphis 
State  University.   Allison 
Lamb  teaches  kindergarten 
in  New  Orleans,  La.,  after 
completing  her  M.Ed,  in 
July  1997.  Matt  Lugar  lives 
in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  where  he 
designs  solar  power  sys- 
tems. Jason  Luna  lives  in 
Signal  Mountain,  Tenn., 
where  he  works  with  the 
Organization  Resources 
Group,  a  southeastern  con- 
sulting firm.   Katherine 
Mahon  married  Frank 
Elliott  Robinson  III  on  May 
24,  1997.   She  is  pursuing  a 
master's  degree  in  teaching 
at  the  University  of  South 
Carolina  in  Columbia. 
Michael  Maxwell  married 
Christopher  Cornell  on 
Aug.  23,  1997,  in  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  and  is  in  a  two-year 
culinary  arts  program  in 
Missoula,  Mont.   Mary 
Elizabeth  Mays  is  in  law 
school  at  the  University  of 
Alabama  in  Tuscaloosa. 
Charles  McCorquodale  is 
in  law  school  in 
Birmingham,  Ala.   Anne 
McGinn  graduated  from 
American  University  in 
Washington,  D.C,  in 
August  1997.   Gene  Moss 
Jr.  is  in  medical  school  at 
the  University  of  South 
Florida  in  Tampa.  Anson 
Mount  is  entering  his  final 
year  of  graduate  work 
toward  an  M.F.A.  in  acting 
at  Columbia  University  in 
New  York  City.  Wesley 
Myers  is  in  law  school  at 
the  Texas  Tech  School  of 
Law.   Scott  Noland  is  in  law 
school  at  Louisiana  State 
University  in  Baton  Rouge. 


The  University  of  the  South 


CLASS         NOTES 


Eric  Ochel  works  at  the 
Chicago  Mercantile 
Exchange.   Brad  Philips  is 
an  aggregate  technician  for 
Waterways  Material  Co.  in 
Mobile,  Ala.   Amy  Powell  is 
working  toward  a  Ph.D.  in 
romance  languages  at  the 
University  of  Georgia  in 
Athens.   Natasha  Riley  is  an 
army  medic  stationed  in 
Wiesbaden,  Germany. 
Burnie  Rogers  completed 
an  internship  with  the 
Division  of  Adolescent  and 
School  Health  at  CDC  and 
is  working  toward  a  Ph.D. 
in  health  education  and 
promotion  at  the  University 
of  Alabama  in 
Birmingham.   Mary  Rossi 
is  pursuing  a  master's 
degree  in  anthropology  at 
Western  Washington 
University.    Brian  Rushing 
is  working  on  a  master's 
degree  in  environmental 
planning  and  management 
at  Louisiana  State 
University  in  Baton  Rouge. 
Craig  Schmidt  teaches 
English  at  a  high  school 
near  St.  Louis,  Mo.   Nena 
Scott  is  pursuing  a  gradu- 
ate degree  in  landscape 
architecture  at  LSU  in 
Baton  Rouge.   Emily  Shealy 
is  the  associate  editor  and 
production  manager  for 
the  Columbia  Metropolitan 
Magazine  in  South 
Carolina.  Angela  Sitz  mar- 
ried Gary  Ladd  on  Aug.  8, 
1997,  in  Monteagle,  Term. 
May  Smythe  is  in  law 
school  at  the  University  of 
Mississippi  in  Oxford. 
Traci  Solomon  works  for 
Bain  &  Co.,  an  internation- 
al strategic  marketing  con- 
sulting firm  in  Irving, 
Texas.   Nicole  Songy  is  a 
senior  in  LSU's  law  school 
and  was  elected  to  the 
Appellate  Advocacy  Board. 
Missy  Speights  and  Walter 
Hubbell  were  married  June 
7,  1997,  in  Dallas,  Texas. 
Missy  works  for  Coca  Cola 
and  Walter  works  at  Fannie 
Mae.   Nancy  Beth  Spencer 
married  Ken  Bailey  Jr. 
(C'94)onJune  1,  1997,  in 
Simsboro,  La.   Molly  Meyer 
Spessard  and  her  husband, 
Bo,  live  in  Nashville,  Tenn., 
where  she  is  editor  for  a 
marketing  firm.   Seth 


Stewart  is  in  his  second 
year  at  the  Medical  College 
of  Georgia  School  of  Dentis- 
try in  Augusta.   Roger  Stott 
married  Jennifer  Kling  on 
Aug.  9,  1997,  and  is  in  his 
second  year  of  graduate 
school  in  environmental 
public  policy  at  the  Univer- 
sity  of  Maryland.   Robin 
Taylor  is  in  her  last  year  at 
South  Texas  College  of  Law 
and  is  editor  of  the  law  re- 
view there.   Mary  Beth 
Teague  works  in  the  operat- 
ing room  at  Brookwood 
Medical  Center  in  Birming- 
ham, Ala.  Jordana  Tonn 
completed  a  master's  de- 
gree in  German  literature 
at  the  University  of  Dela- 
ware.  Margaret  Upchurch 
is  an  assistant  art  director 
for  Design  Associates  in 
Charlotte,  N.C.  Serena 
Vann  is  pursuing  a  master's 
degree  in  literature  at  the 
University  of  Charleston  in 
South  Carolina.  Tyler 
Vaughey  just  returned  from 
a  fishing  trip  in  Alaska  with 
Doug  Combs.   He  lives  in 
Chicago,  111.,  where  he  is  in 
the  consulting  business. 
Christina  Vial  recently 
received  a  master's  degree 
in  music  at  the  San 
Francisco  Conservatory  of 
Music  and  is  doing  post 
graduate  work.   Tija  Ward 
is  a  sophomore  at  Meharry 
Medical  College  in 
Nashville,  Tenn.  Jeannette 
Warren  is  administrative 
project  assistant  in  the 
executive  offices  of  the 
American  Society  of 
Engineering  Education  in 
Arlington,  Va.  Andrew 
Williams  is  an  international 
marketing  representative 
with  Knowledge  Based 
Systems  Inc.  in  Austin, 
Texas.   Ray  Williams  is  pur- 
suing a  master's  degree  in 
forestry  at  the  University  of 
Vermont.   Laura  Wylie 
teaches  four-year-olds  at  the 
International  School  in 
Honduras. 


'96 


Ms.  Ashley  Neal 
2417  Walton  Way 
Augusta,  GA  30904 

Jim  Henley  and  Skye 
Howell  were  married  in 
Sewanee  on  June  14,  1997. 


They  live  in  Seattle,  Wash. 
Harvey  Lardln  moved  from 
Thomasville,  Ga.,  to 
Lafayette,  Ind.   Chris 
Morris  and  Ashley  Brigham 
(C*97)  were  married  in  All 
Saints'  Chapel  in  Sewanee 
on  Aug.  13,  1997.   Steve 
Schale  is  in  St.  Augustine 
Beach,  Fla.,  where  he  is  a 
legislative  aide  to  State 
Representative  Doug  Wiles. 
Mary  Maurice  Sumerel  is  a 
student  at  Emory  Law 
School,  and  lives  in 
Decatur,  Ga.   Chris  Willett 
spent  the  summer  working 
for  Wolfram  Research  writ- 
ing computer  programs, 
after  completing  his  first 
year  of  graduate  school  at 
the  University  of  Illinois. 

'97 

Ms.  Amy  Crowder 
84  A  26th  Street 
Atlanta,  GA   30309 

Steven  Bruce  works  for  an 
investment  bank, 
Montgomery  Securities,  in 
San  Francisco,  Calif.    Kim 
Fauls  is  a  community  affairs 
assistant  in  Atlanta,  Ga. 
Mike  Fulkerson  is  in  Port 
Angeles,  Wash.,  working  for 
Green  Crow,  a  timber  com- 
pany.  Niklas  Hultin  is  a 
graduate  student  in  the 
Department  of 
Anthropology  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania 
in  Philadelphia.   Ramsey 
Moss  moved  from  Jackson, 
Tenn.,  to  Austin,  Texas. 
Jason  Pittman  is  pursuing  a 
Ph.D.  in  chemistry  at  the 
University  of  Tennessee  in 
Enoxville.    David  Simpson 
and  his  wife,  Tiffany, 
moved  to  Windsor,  Colo., 
so  Tiffany  can  attend  the 
University  of  Colorado. 
Lee  Williams  is  stationed  in 
Charleston,  S.C.,  for  the 
next  ten  months  with 
Americorps. 


School  ofTlieolog}' 
T'45 


John  Brown  moved  to  Palm 
Springs,  Calif.    He 
observed  the  Golden 
Jubilee  of  50  years  of  priest- 
ly ministry  on  Solemnity  of 
Saints  Peter  and  Paul,  with 


Jubilee  Mass,  Most  Precious 
Blood  Church,  on  June  28, 
1997,  with  Solemn 
Evensong  on  June  29, 
Corpus  Christi  Catholic 
Cathedral. 


T'74 


Julia  May  became  director 
of  the  Learning  Resource 
Center  at  Anson 
Community  College  in 
Polkton,  N.C,  on  June  16, 
1997. 


T'86 


Battle  Beasley  married  Amy 
Dawn  Harwell  on  Sept.  27, 
1997,  at  All  Saints'  Chapel 
in  Sewanee. 


T'89 


Tom  Macfie  was  elected  a 
Lhiiversity  trustee  from  the 
Diocese  of  Tennessee  in 
January  1997,  and  in  late 
June  he  was  called  to  be 
the  25th  rector  of  Otey 
Memorial  Parish  in 
Sewanee,  where  he  and  his 
wife,  Pamela,  and  their 
eight-year-old  son,  Thomas, 
now  live. 


32 


SEWANEE/FALL    1997 


IN         MEMORIAM 


Edwin  M.  Johnston,  C'29,  of 

St.  Louis,  Mo.,  died  Aug.  27, 
1997.  He  was  a  retired  attor- 
ney and  a  former  trustee 
(1969-72)  of  the  University 
of  the  South.  An  English 
major  at  Sewanee,  he  was  a 
member  of  Sigma  Nu  frater- 
nity and  die  Order  of 
Gownsmen,  and  was  on  the 
staff  of  the  Purple.  He  also 
served  as  vice  president,  sec- 
retary, and  treasurer  of 
Sigma  Epsilon.  He  went  on 
to  earn  a  law  degree  from 
die  University  of  Buffalo  in 
New  York.  A  successful 
attorney  in  St.  Louis  for 
many  years,  he  was  a  former 
judge  of  Ladue  Municipal 
Court,  president  of  St.  Louis 
Children's  Hospital,  and 
chair  of  die  Board  of  Police 
and  Fire  Commissioners. 
Survivors  include  his  wife, 
Anne  Winton  Johnston. 

George  Harry  Scott,  C'30, 

died  Sept.  13,1997.  He  was 
owner  of  Harry  Scott  Realty 
Co.  in  Murfreesboro,  Tenn. 


Robert  B.  Sears,  C'32,  died 
July  3,  1997,  in  a  Roanoke, 
Va.,  hospital.  A  native  of 
Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  he 
spent  20  years  as  a  science, 
medicine,  and  general 
assignment  writer  for  die 
Roanoke  Times,  before  retir- 
ing in  1975.  He  was  a  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  graduate  of 
Sewanee  and  die  Columbia 
University  Library  School. 
In  1959,  he  won  a  first  place 
Virginia  Press  Association 
award  for  a  feature  story 
about  an  unemployed  rail- 
road worker.  In  1966,  he 
traveled  through  Soudi  Pole 
ice  fields  to  report  on  a 
National  Science 
Foundation  tour  of 
Antarctica.  Following  retire- 
ment, he  accompanied  an 
Earthwatch  expedition  to  the 
Colima  volcano  in  Mexico, 
assisting  scientists  with 
experiments,  and  reporting 
to  Roanoke  on  his  experi- 
ences. In  1991,  Sewanee 
awarded  him  the  Hall 
Trophy  to  recognize  his 
effectiveness  in  leading  his 
class  to  a  higher  percentage 
of  giving  and  strengthening 
ties  among  his  classmates. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Margaret  Boyd  Schuster 
Sears,  a  niece,  two  nephews, 
and  a  sister-in  law. 


Duncan  M.  Lang,  C33,  died 
June  22,  1997.  He  was  a 


retired  chemist  in  Oak 
Ridge,  Tenn.  A  native  of 
Camden,  S.C.,  he  went  on  to 
the  University  of  South 
Carolina  for  a  degree  in 
chemistry  after  graduating 
from  Sewanee  widi  a  BA.  in 
biology.  He  was  a  member 
of  Sigma  Nu  fraternity. 

The  Rev.  Alexander  "Sandy" 
DuBose  Juhan,  A'34,  C'40, 

died  Sept.  4,  1997.  He  was 
born  in  Sewanee,  Tenn.,  in 
1916  to  the  late  Rt.  Rev. 
Frank  Alexander  Juhan, 
fourdi  Episcopal  bishop  of 
die  Diocese  of  Florida,  and 
Vera  Louise  MacKnight  of 
Selma,  Ala.  After  graduation 
from  die  University  of  die 
South,  he  earned  his  master 
of  divinity  degree  in  1943 
from  die  Virginia 
Theological  Seminary  and 
received  an  honorary  doctor 
of  divinity  degree  in  1975. 
In  1944-46,  he  served  in  the 
U.S.  Army  Chaplains  Corps 
in  die  Philippines  and  in 
Japan.  In  1953,  he  began 
working  widi  the  small  com- 
munity of  Ponte  Vedra 
Beach,  Fla.,  building  Christ 
Church  mission  from  a 
membership  of  30  to  approx- 
imately 700  communicants 
in  the  parish  when  he  retired 
as  its  first  rector  in  1979.  He 
served  as  trustee  for  the 
Jessie  Ball  duPont  Religious, 
Charitable,  and  Educational 
Fund,  and  as  a  Sewanee 
trustee  from  die  Diocese  of 
Florida.  The  Julian  Bridge 
in  Abbo's  Alley  in  Sewanee  is 
a  memorial  to  him. 
Throughout  his  lifetime,  he 
had  a  strong  interest  in  art 
and  its  history,  painting  well 
into  his  seventies.  He 
designed  die  original  stained 
glass  windows  at  Christ 
Church  in  Ponte  Vedra 
Beach.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Alice  Bryan  Julian, 
three  daughters,  a  son,  five 
grandchildren,  two  great- 
grandchildren, and  a  sister. 

Kenneth  Roy  Gregg,  C'40,  of 

Kansas  City,  Mo.,  died  June 
4,  1997.  He  was  a  retired 
newspaper  editor.  At 
Sewanee,  he  was  a  member 
of  Sigma  Nu  fraternity,  the 
Order  of  Gownsmen,  die 
Scholarship  Society,  and  Pi 
Gamma  Nu.  He  went  on  to 
earn  a  master's  degree  in 
journalism  from  the 
University  of  Missouri  in 
Columbia.  Following  retire- 
ment, he  was  the  organizer 


and  president  of  the 
Hamden  Civil  War  History 
Group  which  started  in 
January  1982. 

James  J.  Sirmans,  C'42,  of 

New  York  City,  died  June  9, 
1997.  Born  in  Waycross, 
Ga.,  he  worked  as  a  city 
reporter  in  that  state  after 
graduation  from  Sewanee 
and  before  going  on  to  earn 
a  master's  degree  from  the 
Pulitzer  School  of 
Journalism  at  Columbia 
University,  where  he  was  Phi 
Beta  Kappa.  His  career 
included  holding  various 
positions  at  CBS  Inc.  in  New 
York,  and  working  as  a  free- 
lance writer,  with  articles 
appealing  in  numerous  pub- 
lications, including  die  New 
York  Times,  London  Sunday 
Times,  TV  Guide,  Esquire,  and 
Harper's  Daily  News. 

Owen  F.  Stoughton,  C'42,  of 

Altamonte  Springs,  Fla.,  died 
July  31,  1997. 

Dr.  Fred  F.  Converse,  C'45,  of 

Baltimore,  Md.,  died  in  May 
1997.  A  native  of  Sumter, 
S.C.,  he  graduated  from  Yale 
University  in  1944  after 
attending  the  LTniversity  of 
die  South,  where  he  was  a 
member  of  Alpha  Tau 
Omega  fraternity.  He  went 
on  to  earn  a  medical  degree 
in  1948  from  the  Medical 
University  of  Soudi  Carolina, 
and  performed  his  psychiatric 
residency  at  Johns  Hopkins 
Hospital,  Phipps  Psychiatric 
Clinic.  He  was  retired  from 
the  practice  of  psychiatry  at 
die  time  of  his  deadi. 
Survivors  include  his  wife,  the 
former  Vermelle  Webster. 


The  Rev.  William  J. 
Fitzhugh,  T'48,  died  July  7, 
1997,  in  Little  Rock,  Ark. 
A  native  of  Marianna,  Ark., 
he  was  ordained  in  1948 
and  subsequently  served 
churches  in  Arkansas  and 
Mississippi.   He  retired  in 
1982  as  rector  of  St.  Mary's 
Church  in  El  Dorado,  Ark., 
and  moved  to  Little  Rock 
to  assist  the  rector  of  Christ 
Church.   Active  in  evange- 
lism throughout  his  life,  he 
held  a  number  of  diocesan 
offices,  including  those  of 
chair  of  the  Department  of 
Mission  and  of  the  Division 
of  Evangelism,  dean  of  the 
Southeast  Convocation, 
and  member  of  the 


Executive  Council  and  of 
the  Department  of 
Christian  Education.    In 
addition  to  his  wife,  Martha 
Thompson  Fitzhugh,  sur- 
vivors include  a  son, 
William  J.  Fitzhugh  Jr., 
C'67. 


Dr.  Mac  S.  Hammond,  C'48, 
died  July  9,  1997,  at  his 
home  in  Buffalo,  N.Y  He 
was  a  poet  and  professor 
emeritus  of  English  at  the 
University  of  Buffalo.   Born 
in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  he 
served  in  the  Navy  V-12  pro- 
gram while  studying  at  the 
University  of  Soudi  Carolina 
before  earning  his  bache- 
lor's degree  in  English  from 
Sewanee.  He  earned  his 
master's  degree  and  doctor- 
ate at  Harvard  University, 
and  spent  a  year  abroad  in 
1955-56  as  a  Sewanee  Review 
Fellow  in  Poetry.  From 
1968-71 ,  he  was  master  of 
Cassirer  College  at  die 
University  of  Buffalo,  an 
experimental  college  set  up 
to  provide  an  alternative  to 
the  traditional  academic 
experience,  and  from  1979- 
83,  he  was  director  of 
Buffalo's  graduate  program 
in  creative  writing.  In  addi- 
tion to  having  his  poetry 
appear  in  numerous  maga- 
zines, he  published  four  vol- 
umes of  poed'y  during  his 
career.  In  1980,  he  was  invit- 
ed to  the  White  House  by 
President  Carter  for  a  pro- 
gram honoring  200 
American  poets.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Katka 
Hammond,  a  son,  a  daugh- 
ter, and  two  grandsons. 

Joseph  Donald  Ezechel  Jr., 
C'49,  died  Aug.  28,  1997,  in 
Franklin,  N.C.  A  native  of 
New  York,  he  was  an  elec- 
tronics  salesman,  a  pilot  for 
the  U.S.  Navy  in  World  War 
II  in  the  South  Pacific,  and  a 
former  owner  of  the 
Scotsman  Creek  Trout  Farm 
in  Cashiers,  N.C,  that  raised 
and  processed  trout  for 
restaurants  in  South 
Carolina,  Nordi  Carolina, 
and  Georgia.  At  Sewanee, 
he  was  a  member  of  the 
Order  of  Gownsmen  and 
Sigma  Nu  fraternity. 
Survivors  include  his  wife, 
Beatrice  Peters  Ezechel, 
three  daughters,  one  step- 
daughter, one  adopted 
daughter,  two  sons,  diree 
stepsons,  a  sister,  and  19 
grandchildren. 


The  University  of  the  South 


MEMORIAM 


Lawrence  C.  West,  C'52,  died 
May  27, 1997,  at  home  in 
Portland,  Ore.,  following  a 
long  illness.  He  was  a  tax 
attorney  in  Portland  for  many 
years.  An  economics  major  at 
Sewanee,  he  held  member- 
ship in  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Pi 
Gamma  Mu,  and  Kappa 
Alpha.  He  also  served  on  the 
executive  committee  of  the 
Order  of  Gownsmen. 
Following  graduation,  he 
went  on  to  earn  an  MBA 
from  the  University  of 
Chicago  and  a  law  degree 
from  the  University  of 
Florida.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Constance  Kennedy 
West,  and  two  sons.  Also  sur- 
viving are  his  mother,  Janet 
M.  West,  brothers,  Arthur 
(Sandy)  West,  C'51.  and 
Richard  West,  C'55,  and  a  sis- 
ter. 

The  Rev.  Chester  D.  F. 
Boynton,  C53,  T'68,  died 
Aug.  31,  1997,  in  Elgin,  111. 
He  was  rector  of  St.  James' 
Church  in  Dundee,  111.,  for 
38  years.  A  native  of  Racine, 
Wis.,  he  was  ordained  dea- 
con and  priest  in  1956,  the 
year  he  graduated  from 
General  Theological 
Seminary.  He  was  curate  at 
Christ  Church,  Winnetka, 
111.,  from  1956  to  1958,  then 
was  called  to  the  Dundee 
parish.   He  retired  last 
December.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Margot  Haas 
Boynton,  a  daughter,  a  son, 
and  two  grandchildren. 

The  Rev.  Robert  B.  Kemp 
Sr.,  C54,  of  Travelers  Rest, 
S.C.,  died  Aug.  14,  1997.  He- 
was  a  native  of  Houston, 
Texas.  An  economics  major 
at  Sewanee,  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Kappa  Sigma  fraterni- 
ty, the  Order  of  Gownsmen, 
the  Acolytes'  Guild,  and  the 
Sewanee  Volunteer  Fire 
DeparUnent.   He  also  was  on 
the  track  and  football  teams 
and  was  an  assistant  football 
manager  in  1951.   Following 
graduation,  he  went  on  to 
the  Episcopal  Theological 
Seminary  of  the  Southwest 
in  Austin,  Texas,  and  was 
ordained  to  the  priesthood 
in  1958.   He  served  church- 
es in  Texas  and  Ohio  before 
his  retirement.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Brenda 
Brown  Kemp. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  B.  Sidney 
Sanders,  T'55,  H'84,  died 
June  5,  1997,  in  Greenville, 


N.C.  A  native  of  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  he  was  the  bishop  of 
the  Episcopal  Diocese  of  East 
Carolina.  He  earned  his 
undergraduate  degree  from 
Vanderbilt  University  in  1952 
and  attended  Sewanee 's 
School  of  Theology  for  one 
year  before  completing  his 
education  at  the  Episcopal 
Theological  School  in 
Cambridge,  Mass.  He  was  a 
former  University  of  the 
South  uustee.  He  served 
churches  in  Tennessee  and 
Virginia  before  joining  the 
faculty  at  Virginia 
Theological  Seminary  in 
Alexandria  in  1970  where  he 
worked  as  chaplain,  instruc- 
tor, and  associate  dean  of  stu- 
dent affairs  until  1975.  From 
there  he  went  on  to  become 
dean  of  St.  Andrew's 
Cathedral  in  Jackson,  Miss., 
where  he  worked  until  he 
was  called  to  North  Carolina 
in  1979.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Nancy  Robinson 
Sanders,  three  children,  six 
grandchildren,  and  a  broth- 


The  Rev.  Dr.  John  Paul 
Carter,  T'57,  H76,  died 
Aug.  28,  1997,  in  Sewanee, 
Tenn.  In  addition  to  earn- 
ing an  S.T.M.  degree  from 
the  University  of  the  South 
Graduate  School  of 
Theology  in  1957,  he 
received  a  bachelor's  degree 
in  1944  from  the  College  of 
William  and  Mary,  a  B.D. 
from  Virginia  Theological 
Seminary  in  1947,  and  a 
Ph.D.  in  1979  from  the 
LIniversity  of  Virginia.   He 
was  awarded  an  Honorary 
Doctor  of  Divinity  degree  by 
Sewanee  in  1976.   Following 
a  distinguished  career  in  the 
Episcopal  Church,  he  retired 
to  Sewanee  where  he 
remained  active  in  the 
church  and  in  community 
life.  For  years  he  offered  a 
Jung  seminar  to  people- 
interested  in  studying  the 
writings  of  C.G.Jung.   He  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  Joan 
Worstell  Carter,  three  sons 
and  three  daughters,  includ- 
ing Virginia  W.  Carter,  C'82, 
two  brothers,  two  sisters, 
eight  grandchildren,  and  a 
number  ol  nieces  and 
nephews,  including  Steven 
M.  Blount,  C'81. 


Dr.  T.John  Gribble,  C59, 

died  May  21,  1997,  in 
Albuquerque,  N.M.   He  was 
a  cum  laude  graduate  of 


Sewanee  with  a  degree  in 
chemistry  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Kappa  Sigma  fraterni- 
ty. He  went  on  to  earn  a 
medical  degree  from 
Stanford  University.   He  was 
a  practicing  pediauician  and 
served  on  the  faculty  of  the 
medical  school  at  Stanford 
University  before  relocating 
to  Albuquerque  where  he 
taught  in  the  pediauics 
department  at  the  University 
of  New  Mexico.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Geraldine, 
of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Dr.  David  K.  Brooks  Jr., 
C'66,  died  June  7,  1997.  He 
was  an  educator  and  mental 
health  counselor  in  North 
Carolina,  New  York,  and 
Ohio.  A  history  major  at 
Sewanee,  he  was  a  member 
of  Lambda  Chi  Alpha  and 
the  Order  of  Gownsmen. 
He  was  also  on  die  staffs  of 
the  Purple  and  the  Cap  and 
Gown.  He  went  on  to  earn  a 
master's  degree  in  education 
from  East  Carolina 
LIniversity  and  a  Ph.D.  in 
counseling  from  die 
LIniversity  of  Georgia. 
Survivors  include  his  wif; 
Bette  Walston  Brooks. 

Thomas  Carleton  "T.C." 
Ward,  C69,  died  suddenly 
July  2,  1997,  in  Jackson,  Miss. 
A  chief  attorney  and  director 
of  die  state  legislative  services 
for  the  Senate  in  Mississippi, 
he  was  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Mississippi  Law 
School,  where  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  At 
Sewanee,  he  was  a  political 
science  major,  a  member  of 
die  Order  of  Gownsmen, 
and  a  member  of  Sigma 
Alpha  Epsilon  fraternity. 
Survivors  include  his  parents, 
Rufus  A.  and  Ida  Billups 
Ward  Sr.,  and  a  brother. 

Robert  J.  Anderson  III,  C'73, 

died  Sept.  4,  1997,  in 
Nashville,  Tenn.  He  earned 
a  bachelor  of  arts  degree  in 
political  science  at  Sewanee, 
was  rice  president  of 
Lambda  Chi  Alpha,  and  was 
a  member  of  both  the  Order 
of  Gownsmen  and  the 
Delegate  Assembly.    I  le  wenl 
on  to  become  president  of 
Bob  Anderson  Brokerage 
Co.,  Inc.,  a  food  broker  locat- 
ed in  Nashville.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Nancy 
Anderson,  two  daughters, 
and  his  parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Robert  Anderson  Jr. 


Lucy  Ficklen  Barnett,  C'86,  of 
Washington,  Ga.,  died  Oct.  6, 
1997.  She  attended  The 
Darlington  School  in  Rome, 
Ga.,  before  matriculating  to 
Sewanee,  where  she  earned  a 
B.A  in  British  history. 
Survivors  include  her  parents, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H.  Barnett. 


Anthony  Neal  Creasy,  C88, 
died  Sept.  29,  1997,  in 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  from  com- 
plications of  Hodgkin's  dis- 
ease. A  native  of  Nashville, 
he  earned  a  law  degree  in 
1991  from  die  University  of 
Tennessee  Law  School  after 
graduating  from  the 
Lhiiversity  of  the  South  with 
a  degree  in  political  science. 
He  was  an  attorney  in  die 
Memphis  law  firm  of  Baker, 
Donelson,  Bearman  and 
Caldwell  at  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  was  a  board  mem- 
ber of  the  Phoenix  Club,  a 
nonprofit  group  that  raises 
money  for  die  Boys  and  Girls 
Clubs  of  Memphis;  and  was 
active  in  the  Young  at  Art 
program  at  Dixon  Gallery 
and  Gardens;  and  in  the 
Avan  t  Gardeners  group  at 
the  Memphis  Botanic 
Garden.  Survivors  include 
his  wif;  Vgondine  Sturdiv ant 
Creasy,  a  daughter,  a  son,  a 
sister,  and  a  brother. 


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AFTERWORD 


Barefoot  and  a  Bit  Under  the  Weather 


BY   WYATT    PRUNTY,    C69 

When  William  Alexander  Percy  invited  William 
Faulkner  to  his  home  in  Greenville,  Miss.,  to 
play  tennis,  Faulkner  arrived  barefoot  and  a 
bit  under  the  weather.  He  hit  some  miraculous  shots 
out  of  bounds,  then,  diving  to  return  a  serve,  land- 
ed face  down  and  had  trouble  getting  up.  The  two 
had  not  met  before,  although  Faulkner  had  written 
a  somewhat  bumpy  review  of  one  of 
Percy's  books  for  a  magazine  called 
The  Mississippian.  And  the  two  never 
met  again,  although  each  kept  up  with 
what  the  other  did. 

Even  when  individuals  have  not 
met,  the  community  of  writers  in 
America  is  small  and  word  does  get 
around  so  people  do  keep  up  with  each 
other,  and  nurture  opinions.  As  their 
writing  reflects,  Faulkner  and  Percy 
had  opinions  about  Sewanee  and  its 
writers.  So  did  their  fellow  Mississippi- 
an, Tennessee  Williams.  (Missouri  has 
some  claim  to  Williams,  but  his  earliest 
and  happiest  years  were  spent  in  the 
home  of  his  grandfather  in  Columbus 
and  Clarksdale,  Miss.) 

During  the  late  thirties  when 
Tennessee  Williams  was  getting  his 
start  writing  first  poems  and  short  sto- 
ries, then  plays,  Sewanee  was  enjoying 
a  steady  stream  of  literary  folk.  There 
was  no  sign  of  Faulkner,  but  William 
Alexander  Percy  had  a  second  home 
here,  which  meant  his  adopted  son 
Walker  Percy  spent  summers  here. 
Andrew  Lytle  and  his  wife  lived  in 
Andrew's  family  summer  home  in  the 
Monteagle  Assembly.  Allen  Tate  and 
Caroline  Gordon  lived  in  Sewanee  and 
the  Monteagle  Assembly  before  and  ^^^^^ 

during  Tate's  distinguished  editorship 
of  the  Sewanee  Review.  Others  who 
spent  time  in  Sewanee  and  Monteagle  during  the 
late  thirties,  the  forties,  and  the  early  fifties  were 
Robert  Penn  Warren,  Peter  Taylor,  Eleanor  Ross 
Taylor,  Monroe  Spears,  Katherine  Anne  Porter, 
James  Agee,  Jean  Stafford,  Robert  Lowell,  Ford 
Madox  Ford,  and  Randall  Jarrell.  There  is  one  other 


DURING    HIS 


FORMATIVE    YEARS 


Tennessee 


Williams  knew 


ABOUT   THE 


COMMUNITY   OF 


WRITERS    LOOSELY 


ASSOCIATED   WITH 


Sewanee  and  the 


Sewanee  Review, 


and  he  knew  the 


CHARACTER   OF 


Sewanee  through 


THE    MANY    STORIES 


HIS   GRANDFATHER 


TOLD   ABOUT   THIS 


PLACE. 


important  person  who  regularly  visited  Sewanee 
during  this  period,  and  that  was  Tennessee 
Williams's  grandfather,  the  Rev.  Walter  E.  Dakin,  a 
graduate  of  our  seminary.  Mr.  Dakin  made  a  habit  of 
vacationing  in  Sewanee  during  the  summer. 

The  point  I  wish  to  make  is  that  during  his  for- 
mative years  Tennessee  Williams  knew  about  the 
community  of  writers  loosely  associated  with 
Sewanee  and  the  Sewanee  Review,  and  he  knew  the 
character  of  Sewanee  through  the  many  stories  his 
grandfather  told  about  this  place.  Thus  when 
Williams  left  his  estate  to  Sewanee  in  memory  of  his 
grandfather  and  to  support  creative 
writing  he  was  entrusting  what  he  knew 
about  Sewanee's  literary  tradition  with 
what  he  knew  about  its  Episcopal  tradi- 
tion. 

It  is  significant  that  Williams  named 
his  gift  for  someone  other  than  himself. 
Williams  deeded  his  life's  worth  not 
asking  that  his  name  be  enshrined  but 
that  the  fruits  of  his  work  be  used  to 
help  others  create  their  own  work.  This 
concern  with  others  emphasizes  the 
Episcopal  tradition  that  Williams 
learned  from  a  grandfather  who  spent 
his  life  as  a  parish  priest  ministering  to 
people's  needs. 

We  devote  considerable  effort  in 
Sewanee  to  seeing  that  knowledge  and 
faith  are  pursued  in  unison.  As 
Tennessee  Williams  understood,  writ- 
ing always  requires  these  two  be 
joined.  For  a  writer  to  succeed  there 
must  be  knowledge  of  craft,  and  there 
must  be  faith  that  the  words  will  work 
for  others.  Tennessee  Williams  was 
mining  this  same  vein  when  he  joined 
his  knowledge  of  this  place  with  his 
faith  in  it. 

To  return  to  the  terms  of  the  fabled 
Faulkner-Percy  tennis  match  of  more 
than  60  years  ago  in  Greenville,  Miss., 
^^^^^^  this  time  Tennessee  Williams  is  on  the 

court,  he  has  served  Sewanee  well,  plac- 
ing the  locutionary  ball  on  our  side  of 
the  net.  Now  it  is  our  job  to  return  service. 

Wyatt  Prunty  is  Carlton  Professor  of  English  and  direc- 
tor of  the  Sewanee  Writers'  Conference.  He  made  these 
remarks  at  the  groundbreaking  for  the  Tennessee  Williams 
Center. 


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